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What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/4/2010 8:32:32 PM

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and why?

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/4/2010 9:12:40 PM

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Peru in 1994

Why? I visited two girls who lived in our home during their summer break (when we had winter) in 1993 and 1994 as a pupil exchange and personally I experienced myself as calm as never before and never afterwards during that trip....nothing at all could drive me up the wall...I was just relaxed big time...and no other holiday achieved that...was a great time and had seen a lot over there (inclusive a one week trip into the rain forest) due to arranged programmes and due to the effort from those two guest families I was living with...miss it

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/4/2010 10:23:35 PM

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Breckenridge Colorado. I used to go there every year with my family when I was a child. I almost died there one summer due to a drowning incident, and came out of the experience with a totally new outlook on life.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/4/2010 10:57:01 PM

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About eight years ago I was fortunate enough to spend a weekend in Finnish Lapland. Some work colleagues and I stayed in a log cabin in the middle of a forest, with sauna and heated balcony. It was October, so freezing cold but not snowing. We had a sauna, then sat on this warm balcony in bathrobes, drinking beer and watching the deer in the forest 15 feet away.

We went canoeing, and even now I remember sitting in my canoe in the middle of a river in an almost deserved valley. The colour of the trees was breathtaking, the river was so clear you could see right to the bottom, then suddenly a rustling noise on the bank and a herd of wild reindeer came to the river to drink.

I remember sitting on the plane on the way home trying not to cry. I wanted to go back SO much to that beautiful, calming place. But it also made me rethink my career and how happy my life was...which is why I changed my job and began to explore the world of bdsm.

I'll go back one day, but even if I don't then the memories will remain with me forever

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 12:37:43 AM

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Following nearly 2 years in hospital in the late 90's my parents decided to take me on a trip to the US. We had been to Florida in the past so this time they decided that we would do a tour of the western side. Dad had always wanted to see the Grand Canyon so we sat down and with a map planned out a route. We flew into LA and picked up a car and proceeded to drive nearly 5000 miles. Such an amazing trip of wonderful sites and contrasts. Salt River Canyon, Monument Valley, a chance trip to the Pettrified Forest which we had never heard of before the visit, our first visit to Las Vegas. More than anything I will always remember the look on my parents faces when they stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon for the first time.

The trip was such a wonderful one that we have been back many times adding places like Death Valley, Bryce Canyon and the California Redwoods. Personally I would do it every year if I could.

The most memorable was 9/11 as we had had a fantastic trip and were due to fly home on 9/12 and found ourselves stuck in an airport hotel in SF. Being stuck for an extra week we were able to spend some time in Lake Tahoe. Not the best of times but everyone made us feel so welcome it was certainly I time we will never forget.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 1:06:50 AM

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A beautiful little place called Fiscardo which is one of the few Cephalonian villages left intact following the earthquake of 1953
Original Venetian houses, tucked away coves and a working fishing town that is surrounded by olive groves and mountains.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 1:22:29 AM

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my favorite vacation so far has been camping in the Ozarks.
No. There was no banjo music. That's another state. Lol.

Master and i stayed late one evening at a state park watching the sun set over the river.
Dispite a lack of camping equipment, we decided to stay the night.
A tarp in the back of the truck became a tent, Master built a nice fire,,, life was calm and good.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 3:34:53 AM

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Galveston Texas...sadly gone thanks to a hurricane

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 3:46:38 AM

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This may sound so boring, considering that I have traveled throughout the lower 48 and most of western Europe, but my husband, two children and I camped in Ft. Davis, TX, near the McDonald Observatory, and had the time of our lives. We hiked, went stargazing, watched a parade, had our campsite attacked by Javelinas and met some really wonderful people. We loved it so much that we're returning this spring.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 3:52:47 AM

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Peru for me as well! I love love love Peru (who doesn't know that about me?). It is an amazing (and hidden) treasure. There are the Uros Islands - man made islands that float on Lake Titicaca, The Nazca Lines, and Macchu Pichu! And also the salsa dancing, broodingly sexy machismo men, and mangoes and avocadoes three times the size as the ones in the USA and a quarter of the price! There is passion and music and laughter everywhere. The textiles, the museums, the ocean, the desert, the rainforest.

It's got everything... and it's not terribly expensive. I love love love Peru. Today and always!

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 5:32:02 AM

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I enjoy Negril. Jamaica. We've been going there since i was 6 and have been all over the island. I am not one for sightseeing or camping so an all inclusive resort where i get taken care of and pampered and don't need any money so i simply am there to have fun, relax and enjoy myself is what i deem a vacation.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 6:21:12 AM

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I loved Boston when I was there 2 years ago to visit our very own Angelika. She couldn't meet me on my 1st full day there so I was left on my own & took a train from my motel in Revere to Boston, got on a tour bus & just had a blast that day! I finished the day in Boston touring the Harbor on the top deck of a cruise ship and man was it windy & nippy! (No not nipples, nippy)

The next day when I got to meet my Angel she took me to Harvard Square where we visited many sites. I loved Boston!

I absolutely LOVED Douglas, WY last year when I stayed for a week on a Working Ranch. It's in the middle of NOWHERE & I do mean NOWHERE! Nothing but land & sky! The airport was in Casper & once our flight arrived & we got our baggage the airport shut down until the next day when the flights started again! The counter was run by 2 people and very efficiently I might add

It took about 30-45 minutes to get to the main ranch where we stayed for the night then hopped in the car for a 2hr trip to paradise! They had a small house which they bought in another part of WY & actually had towed to Douglas WY & plopped down in the middle of a field next to Shephard's Mountains where we hiked one evening to overlook the surrounding area. Sooooooooo FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL! If you'd like to see the pics they're on my Facebook acct. Did nothing but herd cattle on horseback for 6 days both on flat land AND in the mountains!

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 6:22:33 AM

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Wasn't exactly a vacation, but Russia and Kazakhstan were pretty awesome.

Alaska was great too, but had to see most of what we saw from a train, bus or boat. Just as well, kept us out of the food chain.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 6:28:14 AM

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I absolutely LOVED Douglas, WY last year when I stayed for a week on a Working Ranch. It's in the middle of NOWHERE & I do mean NOWHERE! Nothing but land & sky! The airport was in Casper & once our flight arrived & we got our baggage the airport shut down until the next day when the flights started again! The counter was run by 2 people and very efficiently I might add
It took about 30-45 minutes to get to the main ranch where we stayed for the night then hopped in the car for a 2hr trip to paradise! They had a small house which they bought in another part of WY & actually had towed to Douglas WY & plopped down in the middle of a field next to Shephard's Mountains where we hiked one evening to overlook the surrounding area. Sooooooooo FREAKIN BEAUTIFUL! If you'd like to see the pics they're on my Facebook acct. Did nothing but herd cattle on horseback for 6 days both on flat land AND in the mountains!

paradise!!!

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 6:36:20 AM

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We like going down to the Florida Keys. Key West, especially, but I like stopping at them all on the way down to the bottom. Its a slow paced, laid back, anything goes kind of place. The perfect place for a vacation. Not to mention, I found it incredible when travelling down A1A, in some spots, you could look to the left and see the Atlantic...and look to the right and see the Gulf waters.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 6:47:04 AM

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Las Vegas.

Need I say more? LOL

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 8:03:49 AM

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I have two answers.

First, Germany. My former sister-in-law had married a German and lived in Kehl, right across the Rhine from Strasbourg, France. My ex-wife, former brother-in-law, and I went to visit her twice in the early '00s. I love German food. It was great to just walk around Kehl or drive into Offenburg to shop in the town. The people were friendly and either spoke English or were very patient with my Pidgin-Deutsche. We went to Alsace, where I got to play fetch with a French dog with a wine cork in the basement of a French winery. How cool is that?

Then we went to a friend's boyfriend's home and had baekeoffe, kirchwasser, and some sort of delicious and putrid cheese with a radioactively orange rind. It was all great.

Second, being a wildland firefighter. There were days it was just a job. There were days it was terrifying and very potentially deadly or disfiguring. But all in all, it was a job that was better than a vacation- traveling around the western United States with twenty other smart (however you define it), hard working, and GQ (in a filthy, smoke covered way) guys, doing exciting things in some of the most beautiful wilderness in the world. Imagine, one day calling in bucket drops from helicopters or chinking line to get around a fire and the next day swimming naked in a huge glacial pond surrounded by purple flowers. My only regret is that I came to it too late to make it a career.

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RE: What was your favorite place to vacation - 3/5/2010 8:08:42 AM

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Savannah, Georgia. I could walk through the historic district every day for the rest of my life and see something new every day.

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