Honestly I haven't had that yet. Has many vacations but wouldn't call any the best. Still waiting on that experience.
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Share your best vacation ever. Where did you go?
- Thread starter M. Wallace
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Our 5 week trip in Australia & NZ was pretty dope.
Melbourne, Daintree Rainforrest, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, Great Ocean Road, Christmas in the Bush and a long week stint on the south island of NZ complete with an overnight kayak trip out in Doubtful Sound.
Was amazing all round.
One of my personal favorites was as a teenager a two week canoeing trip in France. 2 Weeks of cannoning and wild camping along the river wherever took our fancy. For the most part we didn't even pitch tents and just slept under the stars and counted shooting stars.
Melbourne, Daintree Rainforrest, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, Great Ocean Road, Christmas in the Bush and a long week stint on the south island of NZ complete with an overnight kayak trip out in Doubtful Sound.
Was amazing all round.
One of my personal favorites was as a teenager a two week canoeing trip in France. 2 Weeks of cannoning and wild camping along the river wherever took our fancy. For the most part we didn't even pitch tents and just slept under the stars and counted shooting stars.
Twelve days of constant hiking through Peru, in 2019.
Turning my brain off in the Maldives, in 2015.
Different extremes of the vacation spectrum, I don't think I'll top either of these any time soon.
Turning my brain off in the Maldives, in 2015.
Different extremes of the vacation spectrum, I don't think I'll top either of these any time soon.
Not sure if this qualifies as vacation but after I dropped out of college in Oregon I had about 2 months before I had to come home to Massachusetts. I spent the 2 months exploring all of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. It was incredible.
Ecuador.
Day trip to Quito, had lunch near the crater of a volcano.
Then a week cruise in the Galapagos Islands. Just pure joy the whole time. So many cool animals and breathtaking vistas, including while snorkelling in the Pacific.
Then a week in a remote set of lodges deep into the equatorial rainforest. Swimming in a piranha lake, canoeing at night listening to the music of the jungle while trying to spot caimans with your flashlight, breathing the pure air of the rainforest while making sure you avoid bullet ants... it was amazing. <3
Just an all-around amazing experience that I will forever cherish. Don't regret splurging on that one bit.
Bonus: Despite having chronic allergies I had zero symptom the whole time. I kind of want to retire to Ecuador one day... š
Day trip to Quito, had lunch near the crater of a volcano.
Then a week cruise in the Galapagos Islands. Just pure joy the whole time. So many cool animals and breathtaking vistas, including while snorkelling in the Pacific.
Then a week in a remote set of lodges deep into the equatorial rainforest. Swimming in a piranha lake, canoeing at night listening to the music of the jungle while trying to spot caimans with your flashlight, breathing the pure air of the rainforest while making sure you avoid bullet ants... it was amazing. <3
Just an all-around amazing experience that I will forever cherish. Don't regret splurging on that one bit.
Bonus: Despite having chronic allergies I had zero symptom the whole time. I kind of want to retire to Ecuador one day... š
I spent a week in Clearwater, FL 25 years ago. That's the only vacation-like thing I've ever had, so it wins by default. I rarely left the hotel room.
Sun And Bass festival at San Teodoro, Sardinia (7 days). Went 3 years in a row with SO (2012-2014) and planned to go with kids last year but fuck Rona.
DnB, best dnb dj's and happy people everywhere roaming the place at day and night. Beach, good food, stellar party nights... Just fantastic.
Not a vacation in the strictest use but when I was in the navy we did a 3 month cruise from Norfolk VA to South America.
We stopped in
Cuba
St. Marteen
Panama
Columbia
Peru
Chile
And even though it was "work" it was still the best time I have ever had off the clock.
Did you go in the winter? My kids want to go but it's summer and damn if it ain't cheap either.
We stopped in
Cuba
St. Marteen
Panama
Columbia
Peru
Chile
And even though it was "work" it was still the best time I have ever had off the clock.
Did you go in the winter? My kids want to go but it's summer and damn if it ain't cheap either.
Naha in Okinawa in 2015. Spent a week at The Terrace Club at Busena. Used that place as a hub point to go out and explore the island every day.
Traveled the world in business class, and honestly it was a California Road Trip that was the best.
Two weeks in Thailand with my wife (fiancƩe at the time). A week in Chiang Mai and a week in Phuket (we both liked Chiang Mai way, way more than Phuket). A couple days in Bangkok.
Runner-up is the Alaskan cruise we went on for our honeymoon.
Runner-up is the Alaskan cruise we went on for our honeymoon.
4 days in Rome strung together with a 7-day cruise in the Mediterranean. With 4 stops in Greece, 2 in Turkey and 1 in Italy.
Never packed so much food and history into a trip before.
Never packed so much food and history into a trip before.
Never been. I was waiting for the kids to get a little older and now with Corona virus we'll hopefully get to go next year.
I took Amtrak's California Zephyr line from Oakland to Chicago. It was an incredible experience that made me hate everything about flying. Would do it (or another train ride) again in a heartbeat.
Honeymoon on a small resort island in Fiji. Stayed in a super nice villa, did tons of things including paddleboarding, snorkeling (one of the snorkeling guides actually took my wife's gopro and dove down and got video of a baby shark for us), could have meals or wine brought to the villa, was overall an excellent trip and totally worth the steep asking price for it.
Costa Rica, Osa Peninsula. My wife and I love wildlife, so we had an amazing time seeing all the birds, monkeys, crabs, dolphins and rays, crocodiles, even an anteater outside our cabin one night.
The company my wife works for has a yearly ceremony where the company chooses MVPs and sends them to Cabo San Lucas for a week, all expenses paid. It normally mostly goes to sales reps, (which my wife is not,) but she was chosen several years ago and we spent a week on the beach in Cabo, basically being treated like royalty. It was amazing, and I still think about going back.
Spent about 23 days in Japan back in 2016. Definitely the best days of me and my wife's lives. We managed to visit most of the country and were supposed to return in 2020, but the pandemic screwed everything up.
If things to relatively back to normal eventually we'll definitely go back and visit what we missed. Kyoto is now my favorite place in the world and I really want to visit it again.
If things to relatively back to normal eventually we'll definitely go back and visit what we missed. Kyoto is now my favorite place in the world and I really want to visit it again.
