Does anybody here enjoy traveling?

[bakerg]

JD -

I find it interesting that I never enjoyed a single trip I took, while I was on the trip (except what I describe below). But, itn retrospect, I cherish what I remember. I only really like trips in retrospect. I feel uprooted the whole time I am actually on the trip.

I really did enjoy the.....what is it called......the village of old houses connected (financially) to the HFM.......Grenwich? Greenfield? What's the name of that village? I loved it. We ate at this old inn from the 1800's, disassemled, moved to this spot, and reassembled. We had pork loin rubbed in Rosemary and other spices, and had this soda you drank through a macaroni straw. It was the coolest place I ever ate at. There were no separate tables, just two loooooong tables, like picnic tables times 10 long............

You got it right, it's Greenfield Village.:thumbsup:

 

[bakerg]

Went to Disney World once in 97. I was the 25th anniversary of Disney World. Drove to airport, fly, shuttle to Disney, enjoy, shuttle to airport, fly & drive home.:smile: As you can see I don't like driving but i do enjoy time away from home.:laughing: The only bad thing that happened on that trip was my father died and we have to leave a day early.:frown:

 

[grnspot110]

My idea of a "vacation" are 1-2 day tractor shows, scattered through the Summer. All are within 120 miles of home, most less than 50. :smile:

I've never been more than a couple of states away & never really cared to! ~~ grnspot

 

[twall]

My idea of a "vacation" are 1-2 day tractor shows, scattered through the Summer. All are within 120 miles of home, most less than 50. :smile:

I've never been more than a couple of states away & never really cared to! ~~ grnspot

THAT'S what I'm talkin about!! :thumbsup:

That's the reason I started restorations. There's a three day one here in August - that's what I'm shootin for....pop-up, my handiwork, and fri, sat, sun......ahhhhhhhh:tongue:

 

[JDgreen]

Twall-good memory-its Greenfield Village. Sent from mobile.

 

[twall]

Greenfield Village - I'm gonna take my kid there in a few years. He'll love it.

 

[The Post Man]

I have been to Costa Rica and after my 3rd trip I am ready to sell out and move there. Beautiful country, great temperatures, and Obama is NOT the president !!!

 

[mystreba]

I have been to Costa Rica and after my 3rd trip I am ready to sell out and move there. Beautiful country, great temperatures, and Obama is NOT the president !!!

I totally agree with you! Costa Rica is awesome.

Uh, on the other comment, let's not go there!

 

[Bison]

As for me, it seems inane to spend four days driving 75 mph to Florida and back, to spend a week in an overpriced condo ad sit on the balcony and watch the water. Makes no sense to me to pile up 2500 miles on a car going someplace to "relax". When I am not home I miss all my things and ESPECIALLY my four beloved boys, and I worry about them the whole time I am away. My wife loves to travel, she isn't the one who has to do everything involved in going away.

I hate to fly (expensive, cramped, risky, at the mercy of strangers) and hate to drive (expensive, cramped, boring, at the mercy of reckless other fools on the roads). We have gone to Florida many times, on cruises out of Miami about 8 times, traveled to other countries during the cruises but for the most part it's not fun to me. There is NOTHING, repeat NOTHING, out there that I need to see, or want to see. For the most part when I am away I get screamingly bored not being able to do the things I want to do.

Expensive lodging, overpriced meals, rude crowds, $4 a gallon gas, cramped airline seats, tourist traps intended to rip you off...I will NEVER understand why ANYBODY enjoys traveling. You spend all that time getting ready and going someplace, then when it's over you spend all that time unpacking and scrambling around trying to catch up on what you missed.

Well, I DO enjoy taking our motorhome out within Michigan, because I can take my things along and also my boys...but even after a week I miss home. There is NO PLACE I would rather be than home. People tell me, "you don't know what you are missing", yeah right.

That's how I feel and I wanted to pass it along.

Exactly how i see it.
My wife goes with our 2 daughters to Mexico for 14 days every year laying at the beach.
I rather stay home. I would go nuts there.:confused2:.

Damn curser keeps jumping,i have a hard time posting with that screen moving like that

 

[cottom]

I was an over-the-road long haul trucker pulling flat beds and over size loads for nearly 2,000,000 miles in 49 of our 50 states and the lower five providences of Canada. I am done travelling, and sincerely wish my family would understand that. The only state I have not driven a commercial 18-wheeler is Hawaii, but I did drive a USAF tractor-trailer there, so I guess I could say I have driven in all fifty states. Though illegal, I have driven a tractor-trailer in Mexico when I rode along with a Mexican driver from Laredo, Texas to Mexico City, Mexico. He got tired, and I drove. American drivers have no concept of what we have here in the United States until they drive in Mexico!