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Vacation, getting away from it all etc (pg. 2)
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| mezzir |
Last vacation of any sort I had was last may, and I'll probably do the exact same thing this May with my gf.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...010031&t=h&z=17
Thats my family's place up in Maine, everything in that frame is ours. Its like a 45 minute drive to the nearest grocery story, and thats the way I like it. No cell phone service, no internet, no TV. ing heaven :)
Thats the view from the front porch. We got a bald eagle that chills there around May usually as well. |
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| ziptnf |
My parents own a house on Fripp Island, in South Carolina. I don't get to go as often as I used to, now that I have a job and school, but here is the house and beach anyways :D
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| jdat |
I got no money right now so the travel bug was killed :p
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
because i live in Milwaukee and my life revolves around work/school/responsibilities, i have to get out of town every few weeks to keep my sanity... even if it's just a short weekend trip to Chicago or Michigan.
my last "real" vacation was Miami, and that was maybe one of the most fulfilling vacations i've ever had. went by way too fast though.
are you going with the girl, jdaddy? |
I can totally feel you regarding the responsibilities etc. These days it's not all that stressful and crazy busy so I don't get the urge to go away as much as used to in the past.
The last few calmer years the best of times have usually been little weekend deals going away. When I was stateside I had this little tradition of going away for all-saints weekend/halloween and loved it. Now I do that with my parents and it's one of the things I looked forward to the most all year.
Longer vacations do my head in I think. Boredom has always set in but that was usually because I was stuck(no car etc).
yes I'm going with the girl. |
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| daphunky1 |
| quote: | | Also, I find more solace in chilling at home with friends than traveling all over the world by yourself or with someone you don't really care about much ( like your boss in my case ) |
I'm actually overdue on making a decision exactly like this right now. Basically I finished university 2 years ago and left all my good friends there behind and have now lived in a ski resort for the last two winters. Last summer I went back home and hung out with them and then returned here for a second winter. Now that the ski season is almost over, I'm completely puzzled with my dilemma.
Option 1: Do I stay at the resort year round and make it my new home(at least for another year), and get closer to the friends I've just started to make? Though I only have a low paying kitchen job, but I live in the mountains and summer is going to be beautiful.
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Option 2: Do I leave town and go treeplanting for the summer where I can make a load of cash in a short time, see 3 of my good university friends who are also going treeplanitng, and then see my family and travel for a couple months in the fall. I could even go back to the resort for next winter. It's just I will have been gone for 5 or 6 months and feel like I might be missing out on the opportunity to actually make some new good friends by ditching again.
Like someone said, chillin with friends, or travelling around perhaps by yourself. I've never left Canada yet though and I'm almost 24, I feel like I should really take this time to see a bit of the world, and it's not like have any sort of permanent career job that I'd be leaving.
I'm leaning towards option two: make quick cash and then travel. It's just I have this idea that maybe I can actually get a good job in in a year or so, and turn my ski-bum life in an expensive town, into a real life, but somehow I doubt that'll happen. Any advice? |
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| Cpt.Cocaine |
| I haven't been anywhere in the last 10 years or so. Last time I went to cape cod with my family, and that's pretty much the furthest I've been from montreal. After that we pretty much stopped travelling because we were too poor and my mom was getting too old to camp. At some point in the coming years though I intend on starting to travel again, either on my own or with other people, but travelling cheap; staying in hostels or camping out and stuff. Probably gonna try and do a semester abroad too. |
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| DJ Damerchi |
hard to beleive this is Iraq
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by daphunky1
I'm actually overdue on making a decision exactly like this right now. Basically I finished university 2 years ago and left all my good friends there behind and have now lived in a ski resort for the last two winters. Last summer I went back home and hung out with them and then returned here for a second winter. Now that the ski season is almost over, I'm completely puzzled with my dilemma.
Option 1: Do I stay at the resort year round and make it my new home(at least for another year), and get closer to the friends I've just started to make? Though I only have a low paying kitchen job, but I live in the mountains and summer is going to be beautiful.
or...
Option 2: Do I leave town and go treeplanting for the summer where I can make a load of cash in a short time, see 3 of my good university friends who are also going treeplanitng, and then see my family and travel for a couple months in the fall. I could even go back to the resort for next winter. It's just I will have been gone for 5 or 6 months and feel like I might be missing out on the opportunity to actually make some new good friends by ditching again.
Like someone said, chillin with friends, or travelling around perhaps by yourself. I've never left Canada yet though and I'm almost 24, I feel like I should really take this time to see a bit of the world, and it's not like have any sort of permanent career job that I'd be leaving.
I'm leaning towards option two: make quick cash and then travel. It's just I have this idea that maybe I can actually get a good job in in a year or so, and turn my ski-bum life in an expensive town, into a real life, but somehow I doubt that'll happen. Any advice? |
option 2. you only live once and you're still young. |
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| Sushipunk |
| We go for a holiday on Fraser Island most years, and a few times a year we head down to Byron Bay and chill out for a weekend. Both really cool, relaxed spots. |
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| bananas |
| quote: | Originally posted by daphunky1
I'm actually overdue on making a decision exactly like this right now. Basically I finished university 2 years ago and left all my good friends there behind and have now lived in a ski resort for the last two winters. Last summer I went back home and hung out with them and then returned here for a second winter. Now that the ski season is almost over, I'm completely puzzled with my dilemma.
Option 1: Do I stay at the resort year round and make it my new home(at least for another year), and get closer to the friends I've just started to make? Though I only have a low paying kitchen job, but I live in the mountains and summer is going to be beautiful.
or...
Option 2: Do I leave town and go treeplanting for the summer where I can make a load of cash in a short time, see 3 of my good university friends who are also going treeplanitng, and then see my family and travel for a couple months in the fall. I could even go back to the resort for next winter. It's just I will have been gone for 5 or 6 months and feel like I might be missing out on the opportunity to actually make some new good friends by ditching again.
Like someone said, chillin with friends, or travelling around perhaps by yourself. I've never left Canada yet though and I'm almost 24, I feel like I should really take this time to see a bit of the world, and it's not like have any sort of permanent career job that I'd be leaving.
I'm leaning towards option two: make quick cash and then travel. It's just I have this idea that maybe I can actually get a good job in in a year or so, and turn my ski-bum life in an expensive town, into a real life, but somehow I doubt that'll happen. Any advice? |
i'd go with the second option |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
We go for a holiday on Fraser Island most years, and a few times a year we head down to Byron Bay and chill out for a weekend. Both really cool, relaxed spots. |
holy dude, i just did some online research on Fraser Island:crazy:
it's probably pretty similar to fiji huh? i'm obsessed with fiji and will go there on my honeymoon lol |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
holy dude, i just did some online research on Fraser Island:crazy:
it's probably pretty similar to fiji huh? i'm obsessed with fiji and will go there on my honeymoon lol |
Not sure if it's like Fiji, I've never been there :p Sounds pretty crazy over there though, with all the psycho government happening. Banning the internet or something, I was reading the other day.
Fraser Island is amazing though, it's one of my favourite places in the world. So much special stuff there, and so much beauty.
And heaps of birds :p |
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