Where did you travel in 2003?

OK, I'll play!

January - long weekend in Traverse City, MI for grandson's hockey tournament
July - four days in the UP at a friend's cottage on Johnson Lake, then four days camping with my sister at Sleeper State Park in the thumb.
August - five days in Toronto with a friend
October - Italy: Rome, Florence and the Cinque Terre with five friends.

May: 4 weeks in England and France
July: 10 days in Umbria, 3 days in NYC, 6 days in Charleston (all 1 trip)
Oct/Nov: 1 week in NYC
Dec: 5 days in LA

Hmmm...not my ideal travel schedule! Will have to do better this year.

Mine will look pitiful compared to some but for a husband graduating from college, buying a house and being pregnant not too bad.

March - a lovely week in San Diego, just the two of us
May - a weekend in Sunriver with a group of friends
September - a driving trip from Oregon to Vancouver Island, staying in Chemainus (an hour from Victoria) for a week
October - a long weekend in Sunriver ahhhh
November - Thanksgiving at Newport Oregon

We'll do better next year I hope, even with a baby!

Well-I'm jealous!

JAN-weekend in Las Vegas
MAR/APR-12 days in Scotland
JUL-Alaskan cruise 7 days

Gee, I can't remember all the places I went.

Let's see.

Aruba
NYC about once a month
Palm Beach
South Beach
Orlando/Universal

I can't remember where else I went????

January - Belize
February - Denver (AAAS meeting)
March - Andalusia, Spain and Paris
April - Arizona
May - home
June - Paris and Seychelles
July- Alaska
August - home
September- Zion Park (5 days only)
October - Dordogne and Paris
November - Florida (family reunion)
December - Chicago (4 days only)

travellyn, I would like to find out about your Colorado trip. Where can I find your trip report?

Remembering more.

Asheville, NC
Atlanta, GA
Chicago
Palm Springs

and another,

Atlantic City, NJ in July.

I did most of these destinations 3 or more times:

LA
San Francisco
Portland OR
NYC
Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
DC
San Antonio
Atlanta
San Diego
Austin

March - San Diego, San Francisco
September - Vegas, Baby, Vegas!
October - Lanai, New Orleans, San Francisco

Hmm, I agree with Marilyn, my travel schedule needs work too!

Oh, I didn't travel far from San Francisco, but enjoyed all of my trips.

February - valentines with my husband in Las Vegas (his choice)

May - Yosemite, South Lake Tahoe

September - first Elherhostel at Sequoia and Kings Canyon, it was a dream come true!

November - Reno, never again!

Saba, Dutch W.I.
St. Maarten/St. Martin
New York City
Florence, Italy
Venice, Italy
Paris, France
Miami, Florida
Houston, Texas
Bandera, Texas

10 days in May to England, Wales and Scotland.
3 days in Chicago also in May (wedding).
3 days in Chattanooga in September.
Thanksgiving in Chicago.
Christmas on Pensacola Beach.

Ski trip to Whistler, British Columbia
Ski trip to Mig Sky, Montana
Miami for a Bar Mitzvah
Lake Worth, Florida because my mom was in the hospital
Scandinavian/Baltic cruise
Eau Claire, Wisconsin for a wedding
Madison, Wisconsin for a three day business conference
Multiple trips to Chicago

Plus my husband went on about 20 business trips in the US and Canada

Lots of trips to our condo in Huntington Lake,CA when it isn't being rented out.

Bass Lake/Yosemite area, Ducey's on the Lake and Tenaya Lodge

Sonoma area/Sonoma Mission Inn

Ashland, Grant's Pass, Portland, Seaside, Astoria, Oregon

Seattle,WA one week at the Hotel Edgewater/ Renton, WA

Cambria, CA at least 6 times with a tour of the Paso Robles wine country

Monterey/Carmel CA-June with family and Dec. for anniversary trip

Disneyland-we won a trip at a fund-raiser for my daughter/son's HS athletic program

DD went to Scottsdale, AZ for the first time

Pismo area in CA

It was a fantastic year of travel and making lots of nice memories!!! ***kim***

Wildflower, I only made 2 short trips within Colorado, and I didn't report on either one. The first was backpacking in an obscure (and beautiful) area, around Sargent's Mesa, near Saguache. We ended it with a trip to Great Sand Dunes and a forgettable night at the Movie Manor in Monte Vista. I think I've written a little about Movie Manor on other posts. The trip to Denver was a driving trip from Durango, just for 2 nights. I attended a 2 day meeting, and my roommate and I managed to get sick and throw up for several hours the first night. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Denver, which was okay, but nothing special. My trip to Hawaii a few days later was MUCH better!

I had a nice travel year and I want to thank everyone on this board for their help with my travel planning. My trips:

Jan - Washinton D.C. - stayed at the Mayflower, was there mainly for business but also visited the new spy museum and my favorite parts of the Smithsonian.
June - Colorado and Santa Fe - great fun, great food, scenery and weather. Loved Bandelier on a bright sunny day.
August - Fort Lauderdale at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort. HOT! But I got a nice tan.
October - San Francisco - stayed at the Andrews hotel - OK hotel with great price for location and a great meal at Fino.
Next year - planning on Walt Disney World in Jan and Vegas and Zion in the spring. Keep you posted!

March - Philadelphia

April - New York City with family

June - Kure Beach/Wilmington, NC

June - Civil War sites around Richmond and drove Lee's Retreat route Petersburg to Appomattox

November - New York City alone

I actually traveled quite a bit, considering that we had a second child near the end of the summer.

In Feb. I went to Cancun on a business trip with my husband.
In April we took the boys to San Diego for a week.
In May we celebrated our anniversary in Arizona: in the Grand Canyon (Havasu Falls) and Sedona
In July we took the boys to Colorado and Utah.
In Nov. I did a solo trip to NYC and in Dec. I took my oldest son up to NYC to do the Christmas thing.
This was the most travel we've ever done in one year, courtesy of my husband and his FF mile account!

Let's see . . .

Indiana
(April) to see my brother & family off to a new life in Las Vegas

St. Michael's, Maryland
(May) to start the summer with a Memorial Day weekend trip

NYC
(June) to see the Yankees for Father's Day
(Sept.) to bet the horses at Belmont
(Nov.) for Thanksgiving and The Producers

Pittsburgh
(July) for July 4th weekend and a Pirates game

Shenandoah Valley
(July & Nov.) to go horseback riding

New Mexico and California
(Aug.) for a 2-week vacation to visit family in Pasadena, Laguna and San Diego

March - Barcelona and San Sebastian, Spain
April - Las Vegas (bachelor party)
June - Athens and Mykonos, Greece
November - Las Vegas (to lose money)

Many trips to our cabin at Lake Nacimiento (Central Coast of California)
Chicago for 6 days
San Francisco twice for business, Huntington Beach twice for business, Australia for 3 weeks for fun, fun, fun!
Los Angeles a few times for shopping
Yosemmite for fun

The year 2004 has some pretty big britches to fill, if it's going to live up to 2003!

From the Midwest:

January - rang in the New Year in Naples, Florida

March/April - spring break in the beautiful Florida panhandle town of Seaagrove Beach

July - a long beach weekend in Tampa, Florida

September - two glorious weeks in Italy, including Rome, the Amalfi Coast, and Umbria

December - closed out 2003 in Bangor, Maine

Travellyn, this is a great question! I hadn't realized we did so much in 2003. I was so focused on our first trip to Italy that I barely paid attention to all our other trips, and waddya know, but we made tracks in 2003!

Here's hoping that everyone has a great year of travel ahead of them!

I'd like to add an addendum to this question--do you folks hold full time jobs? I work in the public school system, so it's a little hard to get away everytime we'd like to, although I will add this was our sparsest year yet for travel. Our travels included:
June/July - Providence, RI, Cape Cod, MA, coastal RI, NYC
July - Montreal/Quebec, CA
Dec - Manasota Key, Venice, Siesta Key, FL

Does it count if I ran, biked and walked over 2,000 miles????

Here's my list
January - Quebec City
May - Florence and Venice, Italy
September - Drove the California coast from LA to San Francisco stopping at Santa Barbara, San Simeon and Carmel.
I would recommend this vacation to everyone. It was perfect.
Hope my 2004 trips will be as good.

Four trips D.C. to Long Beach in the spring.

Hong Kong at the beginning of December.

Brussles at the end of December.

I actually planned many, many more trips than I took.

April - two weeks on Oahu and Big Island
May - Memorial day weekend in Vancouver
June - week in upstate NY for graduation and family visit
August - weekend in Sonoma
Nov/Dec - two and a half weeks in Austria, Germany, and London

We would have gone to Yosemite in February but both came down with the flu that week. Overall we took fewer but longer trips.

February:
weekend in Des Moines

March:
weekend in Dayton, OH (friend turned 40)
weekend in Louisville with brother & his family

April:
weekend in Houston
3 day weekend in St Louis

May:
two weeks in France with my Dad

June:
weekend in Houston
weekend at Mammoth Cave
week in Grapevine, TX (class for work)

July:
weekend in Dayton, OH

August:
weekend in Houston

September:
3 day Labor Day weekend in NYC
weekend in Houston
3 day weekend commitment ceremony in San Diego (not mine. )

October:
weekend in Omaha
4 day weekend in Las Vegas for a wedding (again, not mine. )

November:
Halloween in Ann Arbor, MI
10 days in France

December:
weekend in Columbus, OH with brother & his family

All the trips to Houston remind me what a terrible year it was for my friends there. On March 5th Tami's face sagged a bit. On March 6th she was diagnosed with a very aggressive brain tumor. I saw her 3 more times and she died in September. She was survived by her husband, a daughter 12 and a son 9. She would have been 40 in November. :'(

It really made me reconsider what's truly important. Make sure you get out there and see your friends and your family. You never know when you won't be able to again.

Sorry to be a bummer.

Indytravel.. that is just horrible.. I am sorry to hear about your friend.. that is a very serious reminder that life is precious.. and can turn on a dime... we all should get out there and see the places we want to see.. do the things we want to do and be with people we care about..life can be so short..

I am sorry for your loss.

Houston, Galveston - January
Phoenix, Sedona, Las Vegas - March
San Antonio - June and August
Chicago, Cleveland, Kelley's Island - October
Austin, Washington DC - November

Can't remember by month:

Most trips: to my refrigerator

Summertime: over one month, ten countries in Europe

Fall: Driving through SW - back to Navajo country, Zion, Las Vegas, etc.

Spring and Winter: one trip each season to the East Coast

All year long: almost a trip a month to Southern California (driving mostly) - I'm a junkie of places like the Getty Center.

numerous trips to San Francisco or Monterey/Carmel - too many to count. A lot of hiking trips around the Bay Area and Monterey/Carmel.

Let's see...
Jan.-Coastal Maine
Mar.-Disney
May-Playa del Carmen
June-Myrtle Beach(someone shoot me NOW)Aug.-Atlanta
Nov.-Chicago
Seems like I'm forgetting something..

EasytravelerOL 'bout the frig !
I think we made more trips to get more wine than anything else!
Tucson
Phoenix
Napa
Yountville
Calistoga
Pt. Arena/Mendocino
Calistoga
Ft. Lauderdale
Florida Keys
Calistoga
Yountville
Sonoma
Pt. Reyes
Calistoga
Yosemite
Monterey
and yet again, Calistoga..
Hmmm....
Note to Self: Think more diverse!
R5

Where DID that face come from? LOL!
R5

Several trips throughout the year to Atlanta.

3 weeks in April to Paris, Rome, Venice, Florence, Verona, Padua, Pisa, Ravenna, Olympia, Nafplion, Athens, Mykonos, Rhodes, Patmos, & Kusadasi (Ephesus) Turkey.

One week in July to Los Angeles

Halloween in Savannah, GA and Nov 1st at Alltel Stadium watching Gators eating Dawgs.

January: San Francisco & Northern coast of California (10 days)
February: New Orleans(4 days)
April: San Diego/ Palm Springs(7 days)
May: Florida Keys (rented a house for a month)
July: NYC (5 days)
Iowa: Visit In-Laws (4 days)
September: Maine (1 1/2 weeks in a rental home-spent a 1 1/2 weeks driving to a from Florida- our home)
November: Boston(5 days)
December: New Orleans (5 days)

We're looking forward to all of our 2004 travel plans- we'll be in Savannah next week!

I went to some really Great places:

Mar. Chicago to the Oprah show
New York City wkend
April: Boulder,Colorado

May: Coronado,CA
Lake Placid, NY
New York City Wkend to see Cirque
du Soleil

June: Lincoln NH
Provincetown MA.,whale watch

July: Drove from CT. to LAKE POWELL
for a houseboating week.The BEST!

Aug: Drove from Lake Powell to Mesa Verde and all over the place. Stay a week in Keystone CO.
Providence RI

Sept: stayed home!

Oct: First & not the last trip:VEGAS

Nov: Fingerlakes NY, Keuaka

Dec: Washington DC
Aurora, OH

Thanks Thyra.

Let's see- Maui for 2 weeks in February and Nov- week in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.

Alaska Cruise

Ireland

Baja Cruise (as an escort for a group of 97)

lots of short weekend getaways

Texas for Christmas

razzledazzle: Great face! Lo!



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I feel inadequate... I only spent a week divided between Little Rock and Hot Springs, AR in 2003.

*weep*

Sounds like the makings of a good New Year's resolution!

What a great idea! A bit like in school, "What did you do last summer?" Thanks for starting us off.

April: Massanutten (Virginia), where we were iced in for the week but with a fireplace, and watched the troops march into Baghdad and nonstop news on tv.
April: Long weekend in D.C., interesting anti-war rallies brought back old memories. Unfortunately caught in frenzy/traffic as Jessica Lynch was brought in.. D.C. is a very different place anymore, the careening motorcades of black Expeditions on "government" business all but running people down, etc. Creepy. The Smithsonian is always a treasure, however.
September: 2 week trip to Banff, Waterton Park, and Panorama in Canada plus Glacier Natl Park in MT. Started in Calgary and made a gigantic circle. Wildfires everywhere, horrible and devastating for those living there. Breathtaking scenery. The glaciers are indeed melting away, thanks to global warming.
October: Dallas TX for business
October/November: Raleigh, NC for business, side trip to Williamsburg.
New Years in Las Vegas (yes, we were one of the mass of revelers). Promised our son 10 years ago (during another trip to Vegas, but he was only 11 and miserable) that we would treat him to his 21st birthday in Las Vegas. A huge success, thanks to all those fodorites who helped to plan.
Also sprinkled throughout the year, business trips to Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, plus places so rural in Florida that I think most people would not believe it if they have never been outside the tourist areas.
Finally, many trips to refill wine glass from wine we bought at those Virginia wineries in April..
For 2004, it's back to Massanutten (almost out of wine) and Williamsburg this spring, Tahoe/San Francisco for the fall.

From NJ:

Feb - Switzerland for business
May - Pittsburgh or a first communion
May - California (san diego, aneheim)
May - North Carolina (business)
June - Germany (business)
Sept - week at Jersey shore
Sept - Singapore (business)
Oct - Germany (business)
Nov - Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving

April - Got married at Lake Conroe TX and spend a week at South Padre Island (week after Easter - very uncrowded and "off-season" rates!)

May - family wedding in Cape Girardeau, MO

June - graduation and visit family in No. VA and Washington DC

July - waterpark (for the kids) and blackjack (for the parents) in Wisconsin Dells

New Years Eve - Chicago

January - New Orleans
April - England and Scotland
June - Florida
August - Australia
October - New Orleans
December - LA.

Bri

Interesting to see all the replies.

For us, in January we went to East Liverpool, Ohio, for a funeral.

Early April, Charleston for the house and garden tour,

June, two weeks in Greece, one on the mainland and the other island hopping.

Labor Day to Red Top Mountain just outside Atlanta for our annual *whole* family get together--siblings, children, and now their children.

Thanksgiving and Christmas to my sister's in the country for our usual family holidays.

I forgot one--Washington, DC in late October. It was freezing, and my husband got a speeding ticket in MD, but we had a good time anyway.

Having relocated from a relatively large land-locked state where it takes 2 1/2 hours just to pass the borders to the Midwest-East Coast where cities are closer by, I took a fair share of roadtrips:

March: Pittsburgh and Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands

July: Philadelphia, with one of the best downtowns I've seen

September: New York City -- all the touristy stuff in Manhattan

October: Columbus, OH - seductively quaint German Village and downtown

I spent the most time and money in Philly, and would love to go back to enjoy more of the museum of art. But I was completely enamored of Columbus' German Village, the oldest registered historic preservation district in the country, with its wonderful cottages and businesses. I'd want to live there.

For 2004, I'd like to explore the Midwest west of Cleveland - Chicago, Indianapolis, and Detroit. Yes, I am a city guy.

Five trips to Colorado
London in March with one daughter
Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland in May and June
London in December with both daughters

Here's my VERY short list:

March - 7 wonderful days in Jamaica
May - Weekend shopping trip to Dallas w/daughter to celebrate our b-days
October - weekend trip to Dallas to watch the Sooners beat the you-know-what out of the Longhorns

Already looking forward to our trip back to Jamaica in 22 days to celebrate 23rd wedding anniversary!!

Boca Raton and West Palm Beach in the winter; Kiawah Island and Charleston in the spring, and then a week in Paris in october.

I consider myself lucky to have the freedom to do this.

NYC & Upstate NY with H and Daughter for 8 days in August. What a wonderful trip! NYC is amazing and upstate NY is beautiful.

Littledarlin3 - where did you take your shopping trip in Dallas? Plan to do that soon with my daughter. Thinking about Grapevine Mills...

Austin - we went to the Galleria, Sam Moon and Grapevine Mills.

We mostly just looked at the Galleria. We bought lots of stuff at Sam Moon, Bass Pro Shop, and Grapevine Mills. Grapevine is an all day event, so wear comfortable shoes!

We went to Napa Valley in September.It was great but it helps to love wine.

In December we went skiing in Banff.It was wonderful.The skiing was ok because they needed more snow.Our favorite mountain was sunshine.Our hotel was amazing,The Banff Sprins Hotel,we stayed in a suite and the service was the best ever.

Jan, 2+ weeks in Costa Rica
March, long weekend in San Antonio with my twin to celebrate our birthday-what FUN!
May, 10 days on Maui
Aug, 5 days on Isla Mujeres
Nov, week in CA from Carmel to Paso Robles
Nov, long weekend in Clearlake, Tx...

Next week, a charter sail in Belize!

2003 wasn't the greatest year for travel, but:

March/April: New Orleans and Houston

May: Catalina Island

Guess that's why I'm ready to get to San Fran in two weeks. Too bad I've got these things called a job and a budget that prevent me from traveling more!

From Baltimore, we traveled to:
January - NYC long weekend
February - Las Vegas convention
April - 10 days southern california
June - Hershey, PA weekend
August - NYC theater trip
August - 8 days Aruba
December - week in So. Florida

No Europe this past year, not comfy leaving kids at home (or taking them yet!)

I thought we had another thread on this subject already, but here goes!

February: Kingston, NY for skiing for 3 days (rained all weekend!!)

July: Miami, FL for 4 days

August: Boston for 3 days

November: Washington, DC for 4 days

December: Poconos, PA for 3 days

This year the longer trips are planned! (11 days each!)

this is retarded................

I didn't go anywhere, but I live in Vegas... Does that count?

You spent the whole year on vacation.

My wife and I love to travel, but we both work. So, I found it interesting that we did all of this in 2003:

Boca Raton
Paris
Freeport
Bermuda
New Orleans
Charleston
San Antonio

These were 2nd-3rd times to these destinations.

Your travels made for interesting reading...one question .... why didn't we see any of you in kansas??

Please tell me what I would see in Kansas. I am really not familiar with this state and I am always looking for someplace different to travel to. Please tempt me to visit.

From Murrieta, California:

March - spent a timeshare week in Scottdale, AZ. Went for baseball's spring training.

April-May - flew to Kansas City to visit new grandson. Spent a timeshare week in Branson, MO.

July-Aug - Drove through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois on our way to Indiana to visit our son.

September - went to Sedona, AZ and Las Vegas. Spent a timeshare week at each place.

Oct-Nov - Flew to West Lafayette, Indiana to visit grandson.

December = Spent 3 nights in Laughlin, NV and 4 nights in Las Vegas for some fun.

this thread reminds of a bunch of sixth-grade boys standing around a communal urinal.

January -- week in Key west
3 days in miami
2 days in Baltimore

February -- 2 weeks
Northern Ireland
Germany
Italy
Spain
England

April -- Baltimore
Pittsburgh, PA
Ocean, NJ

Okay, I'll finally take the plunge & try to remember everything:

Feb: Norwegain Dawn- San Juan, St Thomas, Tortola or Tobago?
San Diego 2X's
May: London and Italy for 2 weeks
June: Chatham, Cape Cod for a week
Early Sept: Go home to visit family in NJ & visit family in So Jersey, go to Atlantic City
September: London for 10 days
November: Orlando and St. Augustine
Dec: Oahu
Christmas in Las Vegas & several times per year, have relatives & live near by

Forgot about hubby's meeting in Chicago and having to travel to Palm Springs for mouth surgery-now that was painful

From Port Orchard (an hour west of Seattle) WA:

April: Spokane, WA- weekend convention
July: Portland, OR- weekend convention
August-September: San Deigo, CA- vacation (while husband worked there)
August: Killeen & San Antino TX- vacation
September: drove up West coast from San Deigo to Port Orchard
September: San Diego, CA- buisness trip
October: Portland, OR- weekend covention
October-December: Honolulu/Waikiki, HI- vacation (while husband worked there)

I am probably missing some, but here goes:

New York City a few times, Florida (St. Pete, Orlando, and a wee bit south of Daytona), Atlanta, Charlotte, Nags Head/Kitty Hawk, New Orleans, Peru, Argentina, Mexico (twice) and Brazil.

that may be it?

first time in I don't remember how many years I didn't cross the Atlantic though.

So far this year Nags Head, and planning a trip to San Francisco, also Oshkosh WI for the huge EAA airshow (a fly in, and I should have my ticket by then). I was thinking of a trip to New Zealand with a friend but that may wait until next winter - way too much going on on the home front & currently there's no way I can take 2-3 weeks off work. dunno about the rest of the year, I'll play it by ear. Would like to visit some friends in Germany while they still live there... (peep!)

from Scotland
Hua Hin in Thailand at Easter; Bangkok, Koh Samui and Dubai in the summer and Barbados in October.

fun thread!

january - upper peninsula michigan snowmobiling, indiana dunes snowshoeing and vegas, including death valley, hoover dam, red rock canyon & valley of fire

april - four corners tour (albuquerque, petrified forest nat. park, canyon de chelley, monument valley, mesa verde, chaco canyon, santa fe)

august - portland, oregon area

october - glenn, michigan (near south haven) for business

november - france (burgundy & paris)

February - girls weekend at Grand Lake in Grove, Okla. Stayed in PJ's watched lots of movies and had a masseuse come in to give us all full body massages!

March - Spring Break in Destin, FL with our teenage daughter, her friend and another family

May - Memorial Day Weekend in Minneapolis to visit older daughter

August - Vail/Beaver Creek for annual summer week.

Sept - Birmingham-Tuscaloosa for football weekend with day trip over to Atlanta to have lunch with Mom!

December - Kansas City, MO for football weekend

Feb -- West Palm Beach, FL
Feb -- LA (business)
Mar -- Salish Lodge, Snoqualmie WA (1 hr away)
May -- Las Vegas, NV
June -- Watch Hill, Rhode Island
August -- Sonoma, Berkeley, Carmel, CA
September -- Las Vegas, NV
October -- LA (business)
November -- Salish Lodge again
November -- Zihuatanejo, Mexico
December -- Lake Louise, AB

Jan - Jackson & Vicksburg, MS (long weekend)
Jan - Seattle, WA (weekend)
Feb - Charlotte, NC area (weekend)
Feb - Jacksonville, FL (weekend)
Mar - Dallas/Ft. Worth area (weekend)
Apr - Connecticutt casinos (weekend)
May - Ocean City, MD (weekend)
May - Charlotte, NC area (long weekend)
Jun - Chincoteague, VA (long weekend)
Jul - Chicago (weekend)
Sep - White Mountains, NH (long weekend)
Oct - Oahu & Big Island, HI (2 weeks)

Well, aren't you guys all the lucky ones?

Here's where I've been last year:

Every week drove from Rochester NY to Detroit and back for work.

May - Weekend in NYC to hear my kid play at Lincoln Center.

July - Went alone to the Adirondacks with the kids for a week because spouse had to work.

Not the best year I guess...Oh well, better luck this year perhaps.

Phoenix Arizona-Tapatio Resort
Puerto Penasco Mexico- Mayan Palace 2 times
Las vegas-Caesars Palace and Harrahs
San Fransisco-Hilton Fishermans Wharf
Sandals Montego Bay Jamaica
Turks and Caicos Island-Alegro Resort
NYC,Atlantic City Twice, multiple hotels
Florida, All over Orlando Hard Rock Hotel Orlando.

It was a great year for Travel. If I can swing half the trips I did last year this year I will be a happy girl

Boca Raton/Palm Beach/DelrayBeach--3 times
Cruise to Eastern Caribbean
DC
Greenville,SC

I really can't recall but according to Mrs Kal, "We never go anyyyyyyywherrrrrrrrrrrrre".

Jan - London
May - Clearwater Beach & Naples, Florida
Sept - Italy

April: Phoenician and Sedona for a wk total

June: L.A. area and San Diego for a wk (house sitting a friend's house while sheh was on vacation)

August: annual week on the oceanfront in Nags Head

rest of time: saving for trip to Japan w/14 yr old son in 2005. Major delayed gratification.

Jan - Scotland
April - Madeira Beach, Florida
June - Scotland & London
November - San Diego

Hi!

February - Denton, TX for a wedding
March - Kentucky
April - Pasadena, CA
July - Vegas, London, Vienna, Paris, New York (one trip)
August - Ft. Collins, CO for a wedding
October - Pacific Grove/Carmel, CA

OK, I'll add mine...2003 was big for us.
Celebrated 50th wedding anniversary with two trips. June was a family gathering in a Colorado cabin and August was a trip to Scandinavia. Other places in the year incl. Elderhostel at Art Institute in Chicago, high school reunion in Spfld IL, etc.
Bill in Missouri
walongman@yahoo.com

Aside from a few short ski trips and weekend getaways; Our main "vacation" was in Vancouver, BC. early October.

Probably one of my all-time favorites to date: The town of Ucluelet on Vancouver Island (Pacific Rim) did me in. Stayed at the Cabins, 3 story, rustic cabin on one of the inlets right in the middle of the rain forest which meets the coast. One word; unbelievable! Great walking paths, saw lots of wildlife, simply breath-taking!

The city of Vancouver was incredible as well, especially Stanley Park but getting away from everything was unforgetable.

We're off to Europe in a couple of weeks, so we'll see if cruising with my Mother-in-law (and husband, of course) will be as enjoyable.

Rosemary1, what is the name of the cabin you rented? This sounds like a great spot!

"So far this year Nags Head, and planning a trip to San Francisco, also Oshkosh WI for the huge EAA airshow (a fly in, and I should have my ticket by then). I was thinking of a trip to New Zealand with a friend but that may wait until next winter - way too much going on on the home front & currently there's no way I can take 2-3 weeks off work. dunno about the rest of the year, I'll play it by ear. Would like to visit some friends in Germany while they still live there... (peep!)"

funny, I wrote that barely 5 months ago and there are changes already.

I did go to San Francisco, didn't go to NZ with my friend but did go to France and Switzerland... not going to Oshkosh this year (just got back from SF, don't want to give my poor boss conniptions!) planning on Rome in the fall, possibly Las Vegas in December. There may be a weekend in Toronto squeezed in somewhere as well. plus other odds & ends - maybe Atlanta, likely Florida.

ah, life!

2003 was a good year.

Jan, 9 days on Oahu, visiting with my son and his wife.

March: Oklahoma (business)

April: 8 days in Ireland (mostly Cork and Kerry, with a side 'excursion' to Kildare.

July: Stayed at home (Daughter got married).

2004 (so far)
May: Massachusettes (Berkshires)

Ireland 11 Days in June - brought along daughter and new son-in-law.

Oct (planned and booked) Bahama Cruise
Son and daughter-in-law are in a wedding party so we were invited - ship board, family reunion (of sorts)

2005:

Nothing definitely planned yet, but Ireland, at the least, for one week, is a given.

It is such fun to reminisce! Here's my list (I was living in Alexandria, VA in 2003):

Jan - weekend at the New York Palace in NYC
Feb - 7 nts in Costa Rica (Osa Peninsula & Playa Grande/Tamarindo)
Feb - 5 nts in Denver for work
April - Tucson on vacation & Phoenix for work
June - 9 nts in Scotland (Edinburgh, Inverness, Skye, Invergarry, Inveraray, Melrose)
Oct - last hooray vacation in Lake Placid

2004 has been a pitiful year for travel - my daughter was born on 12/31/03... We are taking our first family vacation to Toronto in August though.

Feb/Mar - Albuquerque, Phoenix, San Diego, Disneyland, Las Vegas

May - Red River Motorcycle Rally - Taos, NM area

June- Grand Lake, CO & Rocky Mtn Ntl Park

July - Durango, CO

August - Black Hills (Sturgis Rally)

November - New Orleans, Biloxi, Florida panhandle

2003 was too long ago, but 2004 goes like this:

Jan. - Ft. Lauderdale, FL holidays w/family
Marco Island, FL & Montvale, NJ both business, but got to see parents in Florida!
Feb. - Manalapan, NJ see in-laws
March - Orlando, FL business
Ft. Lauderdale, FL to see parents
April-Manalpan, NJ see in-laws
Vail, Co for funeral
Montvale, NJ 2 times-business
Phoenix, AZ Business-stayed at the JW Marriott-AWESOME!!
June - Vegas-business and FUN! Saratoga Springs, NY to see PHISH
Cabo San Lucas-vacation that I won from work!
FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR...
Aug-end of this week!!!Ft. Lauderdale to visit parents
Sept-Ft. Lauderdale to visit parents for their 40th anniversary
November-Orlando for business

I went to my MIL house with my family for an extended weekend. I am happy to report that I did not kill myself and I am still on speaking terms with my wife.

In 2003 I was in:

Chicago
Boston and Cape Cod
Newport, RI and Conn.
Washington D.C.
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara
Ft. Lauderdale
Savannah
Bimini, Bahamas
Ecudaor and the Galapagos Islands

I'm jealous!! I definitely don't travel as much as everyone else but would certainly love to. Hopefully, when my husband and I retire and also finish paying off college loans, we will be able to travel more.

In 2003 we traveled to Prague and Poland in October, and my daughter's college graduation in Maine in May.

I missed the 2004 thread, but we are going to Costa Rica next week. In May we went to Nantucket.

Last summer - July/August 2003 - I was in paradise - I spent two glorious weeks in Hawaii, on Oahu, in Waikiki. I loved it! It was the first trip I'd made alone - the kids are grown now - and it was the BEST! I can't wait to get back - had hoped to get there again this year, but will have to settle for next Spring.

Paris and Normandy
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Grand Canyon
St. Augustin
Kenya
All trips were for fun, no business involved

from Northern Virginia:
Atlantic City, NJ
Fairfax Hospital, VA, 24 days
Long Beach, CA 5-6 times
Las Vegas, NV
Hong Kong
Brussels (Brussel,Bruxelles, ...)

Mid-November 2003, I spent a week at the J.W. Marriott Desert Springs Resort. A storm blew in and hit Southern California hard. Los Angeles streets were under 4-5 feet of water and LAX was shut down for awhile. Despite the flashflood warnings in the Desert, the temperatures hung in the low 70's... 10-15 degrees warmer than home (Salinas, CA) so I couldn't complain. Spent one afternoon at the Living Desert Zoo and walked around under the sun one minute, a downpour the next. I bobbed around the pools and jacuzzis while it rained and had spa treatments the day before I left. Definitely memorable!