NFT: BIG SUMMER IS HERE! What's everybody got planned?

in three weeks assuming American Airlines doesn't cancel our flights. It's been ten years since a beach vacation and looking forward to it but not going to get to the weight I wanted to get at. Lazy.

Renting an Airbnb by a beach and lots of day drinking/bbqs at home. Will dip our toes back into other options that are reopening like amusement parks

24 years after we went for our honeymoon. Taking our 18 and 20 year old kids who will be tasked with trimming sails and interacting with their parents instead of their cell phones for 10 days.

A trip to Cleveland this weekend for a memorial service for my mother in law who passed last fall.

Moving our son out into a place with his friends near U of Maryland for his senior year and down to Nashville to take our daughter to college. Empty Nesters by the end of August.

Big summer?

Just got a puppy, patio finally getting installed this week, my kid's first summer of camp, 4th of July long weekend around the corner, Cape Cod for a week in August. Will likely have some other long weekends sprinkled in based on workload.

trip to London. Disney in August. Heading to our shore house in Jersey fit a week. Maybe up to my brother's lake house in the Thousand Islands for a couple weekends. Home Depot. Maybe Bed Bath and Beyond. I'm not sure if I'll have enough time.

maybe do some surfing during this Big Summer...

mainly Norwalk and also visiting my mom on LI otherwise. Calf Pasture Beach concerts are back in August

...to visit my daughter and then a week in Paris in September. Also, a few weekend parties in CT and NJ to play music with friends.

Come back for a week, then the wife, son and dogs head to Ohio for three weeks. Got the house all to myself for three weeks (this is the real vacation). Having some high school buddies over one weekend, the rest will be spent kayak/fishing on the Potomac.

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Come back for a week, then the wife, son and dogs head to Ohio for three weeks. Got the house all to myself for three weeks (this is the real vacation). Having some high school buddies over one weekend, the rest will be spent kayak/fishing on the Potomac.

Your last line made me click on your profile. Was just in Arlington last week (business and personal). My sister lives in Clarendon.

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In comment 15290943 bradshaw44 said: Quote: Come back for a week, then the wife, son and dogs head to Ohio for three weeks. Got the house all to myself for three weeks (this is the real vacation). Having some high school buddies over one weekend, the rest will be spent kayak/fishing on the Potomac. Your last line made me click on your profile. Was just in Arlington last week (business and personal). My sister lives in Clarendon.

Clarendon is a great spot. Is she still in her 20/30's? I moved when I was 38. Kept my condo in Ballston and rent it out. That area is fantastic for younger professionals. I really miss those days.

they have 2 young kids and were house searching but stopped for a bit. They are in a 3 bedroom near the clarendon metro so its peak location, but buying has been a major chore with the price surge. I think they will settle on moving out of Clarendon the question is how far.

I love visiting though, hoping to get down with the family this fall after the weather breaks.

Going to do Carmel by the sea in July ( Airbnb) for 4 nites
Avila beach in sept for 3 nites
Maybe go visit a good friend from high school (40 yrs ago) August
-go be teenagers again for a few nights ( put on the gloves and spar with each other, watch pacquio/ Spence, maybe check out a metal show) and KISS at shoreline theater in September, just because when your 12 in the KiSS army, you’re alway to the army)
Will do MAUI for 8 nights end of October too.
And if I can, go visit Hudson valley ( where I lived for 40 yrs) again ( was there last month) in sept because I love autumn during football season. Miss the smelll of the leaves and the chill staring in air late September

Especially around there. She is definitely right in the heart of party town. You have all the best shops, bars, restaurants right there. You can also walk into G-town if you aren't lazy. Only about 2 miles straight down Wilson blvd.

There is also a lot of great bike/running trails around there, if you're into that stuff.

I lived there for 18 years (2000-2018). How long has she been there? She's my age, I wonder if I know her.

But I did go to Arcadia last week solo and it was great!!!!

before that a couple other spots in Fairfax county. She went to JMU so she's been in VA since 1999.

Love Georgetown, we walked over last time we visited pre-kids. Love the nightlife down there. Now its low-key, kid friendly visits.

and this year feels worse than ever for me. WFH and new management has resulted in serious breach of personal time. The few days that I've been off, I've had some form of work contact because of pressure from the head of our department. The worst part is that we lost the ability to carry our time over, so the pressure is resulting in lost time. I have 10 days off to travel in a few weeks and I already have anxiety about what kind of work I'll be expected to do.

Because of this, I haven't really put in for vacations, besides that one in a few weeks. I need to start doing a better job of pushing back, but I also don't want our leadership to view me as unwilling to work. It's a tricky spot...

Plenty for kids to do too, as I’m sure you know.

Way too hot and too much traffic. Can't end soon enough. Get this nonsense over with and give me football.

I think I'm going to go to Mount Rushmore though. That's the only vicinity in this country that I haven't been to. might as well get it over with.

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I think I'm going to go to Mount Rushmore though. That's the only vicinity in this country that I haven't been to. might as well get it over with.

Make sure you download a few movies post-2015 for the trip!

at the Rockaway Hotel. Looks lovely and I don’t have the work time for more than a 4 day vacation given how my work is until October. I’m looking forward to it, though!

The airport/airplane is the main place where I watched all of those poorly edited, blotchy, forgettable films about "unusual" events occuring around the house. I also got some catching up to do with traveling being the naughty thing to do for the last year and change!

can’t change the last year plus, no sense dwelling on it. This summer is open, you can have some fun, or not. Up to you.

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can’t change the last year plus, no sense dwelling on it. This summer is open, you can have some fun, or not. Up to you.

Because I don't care for 95-100 degree weather and crappy remakes? Okay I will dial it back with the open discourse since you're so vulnerable to anybody giving an opinion who doesn't agree with you.

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Went there in December 2019. That's where I watched Eli's final game.

Festival in Eau Clair, WI in August and then on to my buddy's home in Montana to hang for a while. Did the drive out there last summer and loved it. Came back through Sturgis/Deadwood/Omaha/St. Lous/WV and home. Long day drives, but enjoyable.

Camping trip to Sebago Lake, ME in August. Fall...I'll be traveling. Going to Chicago, Cumming, GA Lake George NY, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, & Texas.

Two years ago I retired from a long career in teaching & coaching, but I was counting on work as a speaker/storyteller both for income and for the joy. Just as I was beginning to get some gigs, Covid arrived and everything got wiped out. So now I'm trying to regroup. If I can land arrange some talks, I'll consider it FUN - really. If not, then not much fun this summer - really.

We're not planning any vacation, partly because the only place we like to go in the summers is Nova Scotia, and it remains closed.

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Big summer?

Sure. Why not? 😆

We upgraded our camper and pickup over the last year, have trips planned all over NY State through Jersey Shore. We've already gone on 2 trips, have 5 more planned, most long weekends, ALL on either ocean or Lake Ontario beaches.

I'm particularly excited about a site I booked on the beach at Sea Girt, NJ. A military base - working for gov't has it's perks.