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vacation

bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
the wife & i are taking our 1st vacation in 10 yrs. starting the 1st of aug.
our plan (if you can call it that) is to hobo our way from the oregon coast to n. dakota.
does anyone have any reccommendations as to sights-to-see, etc.
no particular itinerary, just driving & clicking pix.
thanx in advance
barto
ps-only got 2 weeks

the hard stuff we do right away - the impossible takes a little longer
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well,I'm on vacation starting today.Don't know what too do with myself.I think the range will see me alot this week.
    [:D]

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Driving from West Virginia to Maine for vacation, will be heading back Saturday July 4th. Was wanting to stop on our way back for the night to enjoy the 4th. Any stops you'd recommend from Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York?
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, I'm on vacation! You see, Mrs NJRETCOP and her sister went to Las Vegas for the week, (her sister is a convention delegate). Soooo, that means I'm on vacation too, hehe.

    Anybody know an 18 year old blonde who isn't busy this week (prefer female, lol)

    Charlie, the dirty old man

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    [:D]After today! I'm so pumped.

    going to see the police, tool, the white stripes, kings of leon, the flaming lips...

    whoa! I think I'm getting on stage for the flaming lips show. I'll be dressed as santa claus in front of 50k people. I'm so excited I'm loosing sleep.

    Ben

    edit: I don't know why I post this here every year. I'd be suprised if anybody knew any of the bands.[:D]
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What are the things you do at your house when you leave for a vacation, lets say two weeks? Nobody at home

    - Turn water off?
    - Stop mail
    - ??
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be leaving here next month. Going to hit I-40 to Amerillo, then to Raton,N.M. next to Alamosa, co. to the 4 corners, thru Monument Valley, thru Painted Desert, to Grand Canyon. North to Vermillion Cliffs, to Big Rock Candy Mountain,to Salt Lake City, Then to Jackson Hole, to Yellowstone for a couple of days. Then to Little Big Horn, down to Devils Tower, across to Mt.Rushore and Crazy Horse Memorial.Then try to borrow enough money to get back to Southeast Ok. if I haven't already gone broke. Anybody along the way wants to have a cup, get in touch.
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What is the best way to book a vacation online or through a travel agent??
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    we have a friend that ended up with john denver's cabin in Colorado a few years back and they told us we could use it anytime we wanted to
    so guess were we are headed in aug. [:D][:D][:D]

    road trip [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Billy Bob and Luther were talking one afternoon when Billy Bob tells Luther,
    "Ya know, I reckon I'm 'bout ready for a vacation. Only this year I'm gonna do it a little different. The last few years, I took your advice about where to go. Three years ago you said to go to Hawaii. I went to Hawaii and Earlene got pregnant. Then two years ago, you told me to go to the Bahamas, and Earlene got pregnant again. Last year you suggested Tahiti and darned if Earlene didn't get pregnant again."

    Luther asks Billy Bob, "So, what you gonna do this year that's different?"
    Billy Bob says, "This year I'm taking Earlene with me."
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Going on vacation next week,going to visit Tucson AR,Grand Canyon,Las Vegas and Area 51.Thought while I was down that far I would go across into Mexico and maybe shop.Whats the deal about ID etc.I dont want to drive across but walk,and park on this side.Are there proper parking areas,the reason I ask is because we will be camping and the car will be loaded and I normally take a rifle or two play with while I am away so I certainly dont want to get ripped off in a bad part of town.Any one know the best places to cross,I would lik to cross as close to Tucson as possible.

    Those who live by the sword will be killed by those who dont. Glyn
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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was on vacation last week. I had a family reunion in Indiana. I visited relatives in Illinois and my Sis in Sparta Tennessee, about ten miles above Sparta, way up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere there is a graveyard where my dad and a lot of family are buried. Sis took us up there to see Dads headstone. We had not been there since the funeral . We get out of the car and up the hill there was a flock of turkeys about 30 birds. I got a couple of pics but it doesn't show how enormous this flock was. Any way I thought it was really cool that they where there.

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  • bartobarto Member Posts: 4,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wife sharon just booked us a condo in Gulfshores,Alabama. Thunder in the gulf here we come.Sun,Sand and shrimp mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Swing through South Dakota and into the Black Hills, see Mt Rushmore, the caves and other tourist sites, go to Wall, SD and check out Wall Drug...then on to Wyoming and repel down Devils Tower...well it's a thought...then there's Buffalo Bill Museum....you'll probably run out of time....lots to see.
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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    barto

    Points of interest are the way to go. However if you have the time, and a GPS unit, you could do something a little more adventurous. There's a site called geocaching.com that lists the coordinates for literally thousands of things nationwide. Some are things that people have hidden at the ends of trails. Some things are locations of historically significant items. One thing my son and I spent a weekend to go find ended up being an old ghost town. Might not be what you had in mind, but it is fun. The feeling you get when you say "I actually found it!" is really great.

    ***I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling section I think I need a Leer jet***
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    I agree with Rembrandt, Buffalo Bill and Ballard's Gun Works in Cody, WY. We just went through there 2 weeks ago. There is Bill's hunting lodge, just 2 miles outside the east entrance of Yellowstone. Ballard's is on the same road as you enter Cody, on your left..

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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree with BlueTic, at the gun works in Cody you can spend most of a day just drooling, I did.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Little Big Horn Battlefield at just north of Lodge Grass Mont. Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Jackson Hole. Devils Tower in Wy. (with trout fishing on Sand Creek just east of Sun Dance. Black Hills in SD. Far as I can tell there isn't much in N. Dakota but farms.
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The middle and Eastern parts of N. Dak. are pretty much just small towns and farm fields, pretty scenery this time of year, probably no nicer than anywhere else, though.

    The Southwestern part of the state is totally different. Rugged Badlands, beautiful! Check out the Theodore Roosevelt National Park there. Small town of Medora along I-94 is a well known tourist stop. They have the Roughrider musical, a "pitchfork fondue", lots of other stuff to see and do there.

    Fort Abraham Lincoln, near Bismarck/Mandan, also along I-94, but more towards the South central part of the state, is worth visiting.

    One of the best fisheries in the country, Lake Sakakawea, very large impoundment, is in the central part of the state; northern pike, walleye, salmon, smallmouth bass, many more species found there. The lake is so large that N. Dak. actually has more miles of shoreline than California!

    If you get up this way, and into the central part of the state, let me know, I'll buy ya a cold one.
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  • .280 freak.280 freak Member Posts: 1,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just bringing this back to the top for ya, Barto. It was already about halfway down page 2; figured if more folks saw it, maybe you would get some more ideas posted.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Are you getting as far north as northern Montana? If so, don't fail to take the Going To The Sun Highway through Glacier National Park. Try to do it on a weekday. I last rode it on a Saturday and the traffic was so bad it was stop-and-go, inch along, the whole way through the park. Made for a pretty miserable motorcycle ride.

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  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt beat me to the SD stuff. You we be on the road during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis SD. and will be seeing THOUSANDS of Harleys the closer you get to SD.

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