Vacations

I really enjoy it when I went to the US as a child with my parents. I find it fun.

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Just wrapped up a 2,000 mile roundtrip road trip to Virginia. With a pit spot at Flight 93 Memorial which I found fascinating. Visited Shenandoah, took the family to an aquarium and water park, and visited some other national park sites. Was great.

Had a great time at the MGM National Harbor. Played for 2 days and left even. Lost a huge hand at the end of day 2 on a crazy table with my money in good, nobody cares about your fantasy team or bad beat stories.

Stayed in Old Town Alexandria. 4 star hotel without central air? The streets there are a nightmare. Takes 15 mins to go a mile at night, because they don’t blink the lights.

Would do the trip again, just not the same hotel.

I don't take a lot of "true" vacations. Overwhelmingly they're tied to some kind of event or something that feels vaguely work-like. I went to Seattle five years in a row for PAX West to help work a booth there, for example. I go to Laurel, MD once or twice a year for an esports commentary gig, and went to San Diego once for the same.

However, I'm actually probably taking a couple of honest-to-God vacations over the next year. The first a week in Florida in December (if anyone wants to meet up, let me know!) and then a couple of days in New York City in January for the D20 "Gauntlet at the Garden" event (ditto). There's still some obligations attached to the former, but it's not work like the other stuff. So it's an important half-step towards actually relaxing.

At some point before long I'll schedule a vacation where I literally have nothing to do, but I find having something that registers as a life event and/or productive makes me feel better about putting the time or money into it, so I'm working my way up to the real thing.

When or if you do vacation @Yoda, are you looking for the more relaxing type or the get out and see it type.

More the latter. I mean, I feel like I should relax more, but it also feels like a wasted trip to not check out a few things specific to the place. I usually hit up a local museum, and the local zoo. I like zoos in other cities in particular because it's pretty relaxed compared to most sightseeing.

That said, I think this is kind of downstream of the type of vacation you take in the first place. If you go to New York it doesn't really make sense to just relax. Ditto most large cities. I almost never just go to the woods or the beach, or other places like that where it would make sense to not do too much.

Hoping to change that in the next few years, though.

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My wife's parents still live in Tokyo so we go there almost once a year to visit. Besides that we try and take another vacation once a year. Some of the better places we've been to are Alaska, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Palermo, Rome, Athens, Montego Bay, Boracay Islands, Paris, Nassau, Barcelona, Madrid and a few others. Some places we want to go soon are Tibet and Iceland.

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