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Getting to know you Wednesday

Mornin' peeps.

August 1st.

Unbelievable, eh?

This morning I want to hear about your favorite childhood vacation memories.

Were you a road trip family, traveling the country one Motel 6 at a time?

Or did you fly to Hawaii every couple of years?

Maybe your family owns a lake cabin and you grew up spending your summers there.

Or maybe yours was a camping family.

As an adult, do you enjoy the same kind of vacations, or have you changed your holiday style completely?

I want to know.

What did you do on your summer vacation?

My favorite commenter gets a $12 Starbucks card.

($12 because $10 won't even buy you three drinks anymore. Crazy.)

So regale me with your best memories and you might just be having a cupajoe on me next week.

Happy Wednesday, friends!

Comments

  1. Anonymous9:25 AM

    You know we moved so many times that those often seemed like vacations. We drove from Northern California to Rhode Island via Oregon and Canada. Four years later we drove from Virginia to SoCal via Texas. What did I do, I sat backwards in the Malibu station wagon and read my way across country. If that isn't a great vacation I don't know what is.

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  2. Mindy Buller4:39 PM

    I am right now typing from the exact place that is the answer to your question. Every year since I was 8 we have been going to the Cannon Beach Conference Center. (This is our 31st year!!) It is the only place I know that four generations think it is their favorite week of the year. We are here with my parents and grandparents. There is such an awesome spiritual component to the vacation, as well as tradition and a gorgeous beach. I loved it as a kid and I love it even more as a mom!

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  3. Melissa5:54 AM

    When I was really young, most of our vacations were trips for my older brother's traveling ice hockey teams. I spent much of my childhood in various hockey rinks up and down the east coast. Each time, it was an adventure. Spending time with my family, meeting new little girlfriends who's friendship lasted for that game and we never to cross paths again, and creating a group of invisible animal friends (and even a Wizard in case I needed him to create new animals for me)...these were all such rich experiences.

    In today's life, my boyfriend and I explore different mountains and parks in New England (we're relatively new to the area), hiking and dreaming about how we will take our future child on trips and show him/her the beauty of nature. We take moments, enjoying scenic areas and appreciate having these mini-vacations together. It also reminds me how blessed I am to have him in my life. Soon we will be vacationing back home with our families in NY for a week.

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  4. Marie6:22 AM

    darn i missed it...but this is still worth it.

    my family went on vacation one summer and after we had returned my father got a call from the FBI. apparently the car next to ours (assigned spaces in this hotel) had a DEAD BODY IN IT. yup. he was asked if we had seen anything suspicious. i'm just glad we didn't know until after we were HOME.

    didn't i tell you it was worth it??

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  5. Marie6:23 AM

    oh and no that is not my favorite...just one of the most memorable...

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  6. Susie10:33 PM

    ooh, eeh. yikes. that is creepy.

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  7. Bree2:01 AM

    We always had adventures in camping! Grr..no, I do not still frequent the NC mountains with a tent every year. We visit a nice, dry hotel if we go with my family now. I had my fill as a child. My mom and dad decided we were going to "rough-it" pitching a tent. We went every year for 4 years and each time we got there when a complete MONSOON had hit. Not just a lil' black rain cloud as the great Winnie the Pooh would say. We would get DRENCHED...lightening and thunder clapping and popping all around us. Here we were ...trying to put a tent up with metal stakes. How smart was THAT?!?! So the fourth year we were gonna try it again...well, guess what waited there for us until we got there...YOU GUESSED IT; MONSOON #4! We decided to pull over in our Econoline Ford Van and stretch out in it and hanker down there for the night. But to our dismay, we woke to a flashlight dancing around each window about 3 am and a nice shiney silver badge right behind it. The nice policeman was 'checking out' things. I guess he thought we were 'PARKING'. (if ya know what I mean) Ugghhhh :::shudder::: I said we were IN the mountains...not MOUNTAIN PEOPLE!

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