| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/2/2009 11:33:48 AM | I am just curious? Where are you going for your winter holidays to escape the chill?
Is it your first time there? What are your favorite hot spots?
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/2/2009 12:18:53 PM | | I would love to go back to Trinidad for the Carnival. I was there about 4 years ago and it was amazing, from the parade to all the parties and the peoples attitude during Carnival is just great. | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/2/2009 8:19:39 PM | I'll be out to Vancouver Island for a couple of months again this year. Spend a little time near Nanaimo and a little time out in Ucluelet on the West side.
Might rain a lot, but sure is warmer. | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 7:16:05 AM | starting end of Jan '10....76 days in Austaila woooooohooooooooo!
2nd time there, visiting friends, lazing on the beach while youse all freeze here, going to places I missed last time. I will try to hit the Bourassa Valley again haha.. yum yum winerys.
ok.. how many days left til I go? someone do the math for me ok??
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 9:44:26 AM | ^^^^
WHAT!!
Not taking a couple days to go to Regina, to see the ill fated green Riders get ridden and not finish first overall in the West??
 yer'self!! | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 10:15:27 AM | | I've had my holiday booked to cancun since june,going for a week.I want to try to go someplace new every year.My second time to Mexico,first time was to P.V a couple years ago | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 1:58:52 PM | I was thinking about finally heading down to Mexico too......oh and TRBL, if I run into ya, I'm NOT having your babies. Can you imagine a bunch of bald, over opinionated, spoilt, bratwursts running around??!
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 2:54:21 PM | This year for winter vacation I'm going to...............move! Finally found a place and traded in my landlord!
No more crazy neighbors.....
No more sewer backups.........(I hope)
No more gang banger wannabee neighbors..... | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 3:09:11 PM | | Have a friend who will be in Bucerias (across Banderas Bay from PV) for five months and I'll be going down to join her for a month or so February into March. Haven't been there before so am really looking forward to spending time with her, and going somewhere new. | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 5:00:27 PM |
This year for winter vacation I'm going to...............move! Finally found a place and traded in my landlord!
No more crazy neighbors.....
No more sewer backups.........(I hope)
No more gang banger wannabee neighbors....
Where are you moving to Patent? We opted to get away from winter permanently and moved to the Okanagan. But... we're coming back to Edmonton for Christmas, so it'll be odd to go TO a place that's cold, instead of the other way around this year. But we are thinking Vegas in Jan. I haven't been there yet. | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 5:44:54 PM | Arizona usa
about 7 days
gotta see the grand canyon , horseback riding there.. mom and brother will be there for a christmas without snow..and ''insert x reasons to go anywhere else to escape the cold''... and also '' insert x reason to go see whatever there is to see in arizona'' | |
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| Where are you going for your winter vacation?
Posted: 11/3/2009 7:43:59 PM |
a christmas without snow..and ''insert x reasons to go anywhere else to escape the cold''... and also '' insert x reason to go see whatever there is to see in arizona''
The bad news is, the Grand Canyon will probably have snow at the top. Bring warm clothes. Don't worry. You can sell them in Phoenix. That's the only reason to go to Phoenix by the way. But if you're heading there from the Canyon anyway, and you like ghost towns, stop at Jerome, snap pics of the sliding jail, eat at the "House of Joy" (make reservations now). Go to the bar with the Harley's lined up outside and demand that you be shown a real ghost. You didn't come all this way to drink with a bunch of p'ssy bikers.
Then if you like ruins, go see Monctezuma's Castle in Camp Verde. You'll be amazed to know that the ancient desert dwellers actually used primative ladders to climb up into the cliff dwellings. I don't buy it. But come to your own conclusions.
If you like places with streets named "Wiskey Row", go to Prescott and keep drinking your face off at one of the bars with pictures of THE Wyatt Earp and THE Doc Holladay who will likely be sitting in the very chair you've parked in. "Of course it's the actual chair". Lots of "authentic" bullet holes too. Then go to Grama's Bakery for cookies and ask the middle aged man with the "love" "hate" knuckle tatoos working there if he's Grama. Say it like this...."Are Yooooooou Grama?" Then run.
Then stop at Sedona and get your crystals recharged, pay some guy to bash you around the desert in his jeep 'till you puke, and then refill at the only McDonald's in the world with green "golden arches". The green ones just fit in better with the beautiful surroundings.
Now you're ready to drop down to the lower desert where it will probably be nice, 20=25 degrees. 72 degrees in American. Get through Phoenix heading south and by all meanns follow the giant billboards advertising "The Thing". For example..."Only 76 miles to discover the mystery of "THE THING". And "What is....THE THING?" "THE THING is waiting for YOU!" You won't be able to deviate from seeing The Thing anyway so don't fight it. Just go there.
At some point you should see some signs on the highway painted on 4x8 sheets of plywood advertising Native American stuff. You can get rugs, pots, an endless supply of blue ear rings. If you drive past the road side stand selling this stuff, you will likely see more signs saying "Come Back" "You Missed Us" "Nice Indians Behind You" "Chief What's His Name is Crying". Just stop before you pass. It will be easier. Buy a Sarape. Take a five dollar picture. Then stop for gas south of Phoenix and laugh at all the people in jeans, down coats and wool hats and gloves. Sell your heavy duty coats hats to the shivering golfers. Then immediately leave or you'll get shot.
The good news now is that The Thing is only 90 miles away. WTF! Don't worry, just keep driving. If you're a fan of movie sets, and in particular Oliver Stone movie sets, go to Superior, about an hour east of Phoenix. Watch "U Turn" first and then you'll understand why the locals hate Oliver Stone. And Sean Penn. And especially Joaquin Phoenix. But everybody hates him. J-lo carried that film.
By now you've lost the trail to The Thing so you must head back to the highway. You'll pass the Florence Penitentiary where, being a nice Canadian, you'll want to pick up a hitchhiker or two. Don't. Sheriff Arpaio will arrest you, charge you wil something like vegrancy or whatever they charged Rambo with. But you won't draw first blood. You'll be on a chain gang, wearing pink underwear and eating balony sandwiches before you can say "But I'm Canadian!". Back to the highway with you. No stops.
The Thing is 76 miles again. But you've either run out of gas, gone trance while driving straight for too long, or it got dark (not like our twilight, dusk, dim, then dark). Just completely f'cking dark instantly. In your trance state however, you're convinced The Thing will not be there in the morning and so you push on, undaunted by the signs that are saying Mexico is now closer than The Thing. Kilometers replace miles and everything now makes sense except that you're in Nogales. You've gone too far. If however, you need to make a quick ten grand, or you just want to shoot drug cops in a foreign country, this is the place for you. Arpaio can't touch you there.
Apologies. I have a fever. Seriously. I want my mom. | |
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