When Is the Last Time You Had a Vacation

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Jules

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When is the last time you had a vacation, even if it was just an overnight stay where you weren’t in your own bed. Even better if you got away for more than a few days or weeks.

Sometimes we just pack up and take a two day trip to another city or resort area in a two hour radius from here. We try and do that 3 or 4 times per year. It’s good for our mental health.
 

Last week we went to New England. It was a vacation combined with seeing 3 of my 4 remaining sisters. My oldest sister hosted a Thanksgiving style delicious lunch. Two brother in laws were there along with my husband.
She lives in an old restored farm looking out onto the Vermont landscape. Breathtaking.
It was such a good time.
We stayed in Massachusetts. Here:
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March 1998, we spend a week with munchkins and dogs between London and Liverpool.

June 2010, our 25th wedding anniversary. We had plans for vow renewal. Three days away.

July 2013, two split weekends in Edinburgh. So two daytrips.

Nothing since, so we were looking forward to retirement travels.
 
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March 1998, we spend a week with munchkins and dogs between London and Liverpool.

June 2010, our 25th wedding anniversary. We had plans for vow renewal. Three days away.

July 2013, two split weekends in Edinburgh. So two daytrips.

Nothing since, so we were looking forward to retirement travels.
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I'm confused... when you say retirement travels... you don't work do you ?:unsure:
 
We used to take a vacation to Las Vegas every Fall. When Covid hit, we stayed home. It's now been 3 years since we went there, and we miss it less and less. We took a week long "vacation" to Denver, last year when my Sister passed away. Her funeral was nice, and we got together with all the cousins in that area. Anymore, we are quite satisfied to just get together with the local family, and visit a local casino every few weeks.
 
I had a mini vacation in Atlantic City at the end of September. We used my timeshare's annual allotment of one "free" week (really those weeks are prepaid considering the cost of the timeshare). My son went down from Friday to Sunday, which was great because he took my water and non perishable food items. I went down on Monday and left to come home Thursday evening. Check out was to be Friday, but I took the casino bus home, which leaves around 6 p.m., rather than use NJ Transit. Leaving a day early means I didn't have to wait 7 hours between check out and departure time. I prefer taking the casino bus because it's guaranteed that there'll be a clean bathroom and seems cleaner overall.

Unfortunately it was rainy and windy all but one day. I took the opportunity to walk the boardwalk that day. But on one of the rainy days I did get to see my granddaughter who's in college down there We hung out in the Tropicana Quarter, had lunch and looked around in the Quarter's shops. I have scheduled another mini vacation down there that is coming up soon.
 
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In October 2011, I took an overnight trip to eastern Pennsylvania - about 250 miles. It would have been my dad's 90th birthday and I wanted to see the town where he was born - Mauch Chunk which has been re-named Jim Thorpe. When I told people I went by myself, they were astonished. I wanted to take a foliage train trip in the Poconos, but the day I was there, the train wasn't running (they only operate on weekends). However, I did track down the address where my grandparents lived in 1921 and it's now a guest house and I actually got a room there. I had a little trouble getting accommodations with no credit card, but they took cash, grudgingly.

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It's gorgeous with stunning views across the bay to the Lakeland fells. You can keep the sweaty Sangria stained Med :)
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yes it's nice to look at on your rare sunny days I'll give you that, but you'd have to be made of steel to go out on the beach in the cold...our beaches here in the south tend to be about 15 degrees more than yours, around 80 or 90 deg in summer, but I would never swap them for the Med.. which is not smelly in the least...
 
I still use my cabin up in the hills some weekends. Meesh and I are talking about taking her sister up there around Christmas time.

Last real vacation I took was in 2005, I think....somewhere around there. I flew to England and stayed for a couple weeks with a lady friend who lived in Hastings. We rode motorcycles all around Eastbourne, Rye, and Battle, and walked along some piers and saw a lighthouse and toured a castle, or maybe two.

We went to this indoor arcade...I forget where that was, but it's where I had fish n chips for the first time. It was in Hastings, I think. And the first ye olde pub I went to was in Battle. I remember getting strange looks when I ordered iced-tea at a restaurant in Eastbourne and then had to ask the server to actually put ice in it.

Good times.
 
Last time was a weekend at my daughters in lovely Dorset in April, my sister and I were going to Croatia in September but I had a big operation at the end of May, so have been unable to go anywhere since then, am slowly getting my health back, hoping to go next year to lovely Croatia, in the past I have visited many countries....
 
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