Vacation

[sydrogerdavid]

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My annual vacation is to central PA to visit my father. Then we take another vacation inside that vacation to my cousin's alpaca farm in East Berlin. (Yeah, they live in East Berlin still. lol) Then we go to Gettysburg for a day and take pictures of the battlefield and stuff.

[FlyingFinn]

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My annual vacation is to central PA to visit my father. Then we take another vacation inside that vacation to my cousin's alpaca farm in East Berlin. (Yeah, they live in East Berlin still. lol) Then we go to Gettysburg for a day and take pictures of the battlefield and stuff.

In Germany?

[UK0wnag3]

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Ha maybe I'll see you in the San Luis Obispo. We have a vacation house in that area (Cambria) and go up there frequently in the summer.

Really? Cool. Whats it like/ what is there to do?

I only have one full day there, as well as half a day when I travel down.

[superjames1992]

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I just got back from an eight-day vacation to Portugal (family vacation). I visited Lisbon (including day-trips to Sintra and Carcais, which were awesome!) for the first four days. Then, we took the train to Porto (a three-hour trip) and stayed there for two full days and took the train back on the third. The cliffs along the river in Porto were amazing. I've never seen anything like that before (with the city being built right along the cliffs). We came back to Lisbon, stayed the night, and flew back yesterday. We had an eight-hour layover in Philadelphia, so we then took the train to 30th Street Station and took the metro (good God what a ****ty metro Philly has compared to anywhere I've been in Europe) to 5th Avenue, where we saw the Liberty Bell and toured Independence Hall. We then took our flight back from Philly at 8:55 PM and got back to our house at 11 PM! I hadn't been to Philly before outside of the airport, so that was nice to see, even if it was brief. Lots of fun!!!

[bkrich83]

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Really? Cool. Whats it like/ what is there to do?

I only have one full day there, as well as half a day when I travel down.

Very pretty. It's the California coastline completely untouched, some of the best views you'll ever see.

If you want to do the touristy thing head to San Simeon and do a Hearst Castle tour. If you do that, head to Cambria (next town over) and go to Cambria Beer Co. It's a tap room they brew their own beer. Good stuff, my buddy Aaron owns it.

[bichettehappens]

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Ocean City, MD for a whopping two days next week. We hope to go to Chicago on the 24th of August. The Cubs play at 2:20 against the Rockies, and the White Sox play the Mariners at 7:10. We'd like to go out and catch both games.

I love OCMD, was just there back in June. Been going there with family every summer for the last 4 years.

Just got back from a quick trip to Pomona/Claremont, CA
took a 1-day trip to San Diego for 4th of July
Gonna be heading back to Cali in 3 weeks for the Cowboys/Chargers preseason game
Minnesota for a work function in September but that should be cool since it's a new state I haven't been to
Florida in October

[UK0wnag3]

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Very pretty. It's the California coastline completely untouched, some of the best views you'll ever see.

If you want to do the touristy thing head to San Simeon and do a Hearst Castle tour. If you do that, head to Cambria (next town over) and go to Cambria Beer Co. It's a tap room they brew their own beer. Good stuff, my buddy Aaron owns it.

Thanks for the tips man, didn't get to go to Cambria as we just ran out of time, as we were only really using it as a stopping point between LA and San Fransisco, but your right on some of the views, stunning.

[UK0wnag3]

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Thought I'd post a quick update now as I've got eight hours of driving ahead tomorrow as we make our way from San Fransisco to Palm Springs.

Really enjoyed LA, got to share some drinks and an eating challenge with some great guys from Chicago and Cleveland, and San Luis Obispo was very nice and quaint.

Not sure what to make of San Fransisco, some nice places and things to do but VERY busy this weekend, and the weather is no improvement from my home.

[Tovarich]

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So it's about 2:45 A.M here in England, and in about six hours I'll be leaving for Heathrow (hoping I dont get caught in olympic traffic), to fly into Phoenix, to start a two week road-trip in your (most of you, anyway) country.

Also gonna be visiting Vegas, San Fransisco, LA, San Luis Obispo and Palm Springs.

Another OS'ers got any vacations planed?

I pretty much did the reverse of this trip last year. Live in Arizona, spent 2 weeks in England, France and Belgium.

Went to Chicago for the 4th of July, but largely skipping the vacations until next June when I go to Iceland for 10 days.

[UK0wnag3]

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I pretty much did the reverse of this trip last year. Live in Arizona, spent 2 weeks in England, France and Belgium.

Went to Chicago for the 4th of July, but largely skipping the vacations until next June when I go to Iceland for 10 days.

Nice. What parts of England did you visit? How did you find it?

[Tovarich]

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Nice. What parts of England did you visit? How did you find it?

I spent 2 days in London before I went on a cruise, then another day in London after the cruise. I don't remember the exact order, but it went from Southampton to Guerney, Le Havre, Cobh, Liverpool (we mostly skipped Liverpool, and took a bus to a Welsh town called Llangollen), Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, and Inverness. Took a trip to Stonehenge, Lacock and Bath as well. Loved every minute of it, even had very nice weather. Didn't see rain the entire trip except for Belfast, which seemed appropriate. It struck me as a dreary place. Definitely will visit London again some time, I didn't quite get to everything I wanted to with only 3 days, but I did get all the main attractions in.

[LetsGoBucs]

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My wife and I went to Germany in May for our 10 year anniversary. We visited Heidelberg, Baden Baden, Nuremberg and Munich. We had a great time there. Neither of us had been to Europe before, so it was a fantastic first time trip.

[slickdtc]

I took off the 10th through 16th. Know I'm hitting the beach the 12th & 13th. Might take a day trip or two otherwise. One of my buddies is living down there, I gotta get in contact with him and figure out if I can crash at his place a night. Can't wait to get my tan on and beachbum it up.

[UK0wnag3]

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Travelling home today, should board in about 15 minutes. There's nothing like just wanting to get home instead of suffering the 10 hour flight and then the 2 hour drive.