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That's when I have time to go visit friends and family. Everyone has time off.
I tend to stay around here. I love road trips so I might do one soon when my wife comes back from her vacation in Italy. If she comes back, that is.
I've always preferred to stay home with my family for Christmas (various relatives will come by, but we almost always celebrate it at our house). Same goes for Thanksgiving. I don't think that I've ever traveled for Thanksgiving.
For holidays like 4th of July and New Year's, I do like to go out and party.
For holidays like 4th of July and New Year's, I do like to go out and party.
I don't think you are allowed to drink and drive off rode either...
I make all sorts of exciting plans yet lose interest when it comes right down to executing them. Ha ha. There’s really no place like home for me.
Well as im pretty much at work or at home (or at home doing work!), it's nice to get out now and then.
Off this week so hopefully I'll get out at some point.
Somewhere with the camera for the day. Not made any plans as yet, but thinking maybe Wales.
Lol. Anything I take always ends up in the POTD thread on here!
Looks like near San Diego or Laguna? The massive gardenia in the hat is ace.
Manhattan beachLooks like near San Diego or Laguna? The massive gardenia in the hat is ace.
hit the beach this weekend, still packed and it was HOT
Did you let your wife know that you’re single again?
Looks like near San Diego or Laguna? The massive gardenia in the hat is ace.
Don't recall there being a pier in Laguna...
Nice hat though.
The Beach is the only thing I miss about Cali.
It depends, as we have aged, We travel less, but we often fly and then rent a car to visit friends and family in the Twin Cities at least once in the TDay-Xmas time frame. When I was working and had control of when I worked, we preferred to take our vacations before school was out for the summer, and we preferred to take days off during the week, because places were less crowded when everyone was at work.
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I got over of the wonder of fireworks about 50 years ago.
It's still a nice thing if you can just show up, see the fireworks and then go.I got over of the wonder of fireworks about 50 years ago.
But in the last 20 years or so this got commercialized and it's been turned into an event. And that's what I really object to - a day long event where your bank account is left begging for mercy, but the main event only lasts 20 minutes. In the mean time you're having to deal with humanity, which is usually the reason we stay home a lot.
If I'm going to sit on my ass all day waiting for nightfall, I can damn well do that at home in front of my TV and my computers with A/C and access to snacks and drinks. And I don't have to deal with crowds or self-absorbed-******* people. And my bank account is happier.
But I can't just show up for the last 20 minutes anymore because all the spots are taken at noon or whenever they let people in. So we just stay home period.
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I’ve told this story before...two years ago on the Forth, Grandkids were visiting and since fireworks are illegal in my community, we drove a couple of miles to the next county where they are legal and there is this fireworks store and a field next to it where a hundred or so people gather to set off fireworks, some big honking fireworks, and dangerous, omg. People within 10 feet of each other setting off these $50 rockets, others tipping over after they are lit, but before they take off. It was a most scary scene, that I vowed I would not repeat, and the grandkids even agreed they were uncomfortable. Each year I wait for the report of injury or death, but as far as I know it has not happened yet.
Last year, we went to the Community fireworks display, sitting with the bugs and several thousand people gathered around the town square, no one had bothered to tell the community they had been moved over to the golf course, lol, so all of us got to grumpily watch fireworks through the trees.
Agreed, hard to do.
The crowds keep me from bothering to go anymore, plus in my current neck of the woods, decent fireworks shows are basically nonexistent. A few years back when I lived in the central Rockies, the small town I worked for put on a show that was supposedly the best in the state. But the crowds finally kept me away.
A couple of July 4ths ago my SO and I were staying in a hotel in western Virginia, and just happened to be ideally located to see half a dozen relatively small but separate displays from our window. One of the displays, at an amusement park, turned out to be really good. Didn’t plan it. The hotel was on a hillside, and we were in an upper floor. Multiple displays, zero crowds and traffic, plus a very relaxed dress code...