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Today’s question:
What has been the most memorable summer vacation you’ve ever taken?
Talk about it….
One memorable vacation was when I had a pickup truck with a small camper shell. I put a bed in it, packed it with camping equipment, and we drove up to Yellowstone. After visiting Yellowstone, we took a drive through Montana. Then we drove down through Nevada, stopping along the way to visit old abandoned ghost towns, and onto the Mojave Desert, and Death Valley to see Scotty’s Castle. It’s a Spanish style villa located in Death Valley in the Grapevine Mountains. Scotty was a gold prospector, he didn’t own the villa, but he liked to tell tall stories, and had people believing it was his. It actually belonged to a millionaire who built it because the dry air in the desert was good for his asthma.
1975. Rustic Fun and Real. Aunt had no children, so she and my Uncle since age 8, 20-year Navy Vet, who I adored took me for most of the summer. He worked for Sandia. He had been transferred to Tonopah NV short term. I hiked, was intrigued by the history taking neighbor’s dog with me. Visited the Mizpah, met everyone and we attended the Kiwanis on Pocahontas night. She even braided my hair for it..(This wouldn’t appropriate today, now would it). What a blast..
@BELLA………..
And I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonopah
Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed
And if you give me; weed, whites, and wine
And you show me a sign
I’ll be willin’, to be movin’
-Little Feat 1971
@ BELLA ~ So Awesome! That’s a great vacation.
Wait, there was a Kiwanis of Pocahontas 18th Annual Scramble Golf Tournament that happened this last April in AZ..
Oh man … hands down the summer of 1985 … CVHS class graduation trip to Waikiki and Maui … how we all made it home in one piece … only god knows … it was W.I.L.D.
…. within a week or so… dirt bike riding / camping at Jawbone Canyon then water skiing at Lake Havasu while the London Bridge was being built
On that trip Uncle took me to Area 52 and taught me to drive Stick Shift in his truck.
We have had many memorable vacations, but one that really stands out is our first trip to Europe. The trip was two years after we got married and were both about to graduate from college. We somehow managed to save enough money to go, in spite of the fact that we were both working about 25-30 hours a week and were both full time students. We spent the whole summer (11 weeks) riding the trains all over Europe on student Eurail passes. We got to 13 countries and got as far north as Bergen Norway and as far south as Potenza Italy. We still can’t believe that we did it. It took us 45 years to get back and we’ve been back 3 times since then.
Seems like we had this question awhile back. I think the question was best vacation, however since my best vacation was mostly in the summer I don’t want to be redundant. I do remember my first vacation as a child. My aunt and uncle from Copenhagen would spend several weeks at a tent camping by a nice beach about 20 miles south of Copenhagen. They tent were part of the camp and had hardwood floors, My uncle would only spend a 2 weeks there, then just week ends since he had to work. It was my first vacation away from my parents, my 2 cousin were 5 and 7 years older than me, my aunt was my godmother and my favorite aunt. I loved the water, and ask my aunt to take me where so I could go underwater, while she held my hand. I did not know how to swim yet, but loved basking in the water and building sandcastles. I went more than one summer, at least 2 or 3, I think I was about 8 the first time I went.
My favorite vacation was to Denmark in 1992. Such an amazing country, special food, incredible jazz clubs, great history, intact fragile items in the Royal Palaces, and great people. Can’t wait to go back! 🇩🇰
I visited my home country in the summer of 1992 with my daughter who was 12 at the time. We stayed with my cousin in suburb of Copenhagen. Visited girl friends, an aunt and uncle (both my parents died in the eighties and I was an only child) and of course Tivoli Garden, and the little town Koege where I worked and partied as a teenager. We also took the train to Gothenburg Sweden where I have 2 girl friends. A memorable vacation, really enjoyed introducing my daughter to my country, she had been several times before, but this trup she was old enough to remember most of what we saw. We went to the viking village in Lejre.
When I was a teenager in Denmark Copenhagen had a famous jazz clug Montmatre, the great American jazz musician Dexter Gordon played there, he was living in Denmark at the time. My friends and I would take the bus or train in from Koege (about 25 miles south) to go to Montmatre. Great times.