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**exOBCstudent** · 03-24-2012, 07:51 PM

(03-24-2012 07:36 PM)Darrell Wrote: I haven't had been on a real vacation in something like 10 years.

Spending 36 hours driving to NY and back (and then spending the three days in-between at my in-laws house feeling like crap because I'm sleep deprived) is not a vacation.

I think you would enjoy a cruise. Maybe only a few days to start with. Ya'll could visit us on your way back home and tell us how you liked it. Smile

Cruises can be quite relaxing.

bean · 03-24-2012, 08:46 PM

I have done many of these. We have the same group of us over the past 7 or so yrs..About 40 teachers from my state..got to be good friends with many..we weren't strangers long. 2 years ago...11 days from Dc to Gettysburg and then through the deep south...lots of bus and beer time together...truly great times!!!

(03-22-2012 10:05 AM)amyrose5 Wrote: The last actual vacation I took was ten years ago.

Since then, I have been on study trips--great places, but there is the reading and taking notes part which doesn't seem much like a vacation and all in the company of strangers. I have gone to history seminars--again great locations, but lectures, note-taking and paper writing and strangers...not really a vacation. The upside was that I went somewhere.

My husband and I have visited his friends in the Minneapolis/St. Paul a couple of summers for five days or so. Emphasis on HIS FRIENDS. Not at all mine. Their wives tend to avoid being alone in the same room with me. Quite literally in one case. Last summer I wrote a research paper while on this "vacation".

This year, we can't even afford that.

amyrose5 · 03-24-2012, 10:58 PM

(03-24-2012 08:46 PM)bean Wrote: I have done many of these. We have the same group of us over the past 7 or so yrs..About 40 teachers from my state..got to be good friends with many..we weren't strangers long. 2 years ago...11 days from Dc to Gettysburg and then through the deep south...lots of bus and beer time together...truly great times!!

I did graduate credit trips on covering the Lewis and Clark expedition, start to finish on three separate trips. Camped in tents on two. The places we went were fantastic and the people on the first and third trip were awesome. The second trip had cliques and whiners galore. A few mean girls types to make it really awful.

The seminars I attended were sponsored by Gilder Lehrman Foundation for social studies teachers. If you haven't checked their programs out, google it. They reimburse travel and provide lodging, materials and most meals and you learn so much you can take back to your classroom. I did a seminar on Jefferson at Monticello and the University of Virginia and one on the Sixties at Georgetown.

**Mommy2Kids** · 03-25-2012, 01:06 AM

My husband gets 5 weeks of vacation each year. Last year we took the kids for a couple nights to meet up with my brother and his family at a zoo several hours away. The other weeks were staycations.

I don't know what we'll do this year. Hoping we can at least make it to Indiana to see my adopted family, but with gas prices as high as they are... Dodgy

bean · 03-25-2012, 08:50 AM

We were on Gilder-Lehrman programs too for the most part, organized a little differently... Our area had a grant for improving history knowledge for our teachers and I jumped on board. We did Boston and the Revolutionary War, Gettysburg/Civil War/Deep South, Washington DC, and some local stuff as well. Plus a lot of cool seminars and local one week study groups over the six or seven years. I missed a couple trips due to family commitments..

You're right. Whiners makes this trips horrible and I was really lucky, we really only had a couple out of the 40 or so of us. Cliques do develop too. It was kind of like high school all over again but I will lucky I fit right in with any of them. The difference was that of the 40, I knew 20 or so from local teacher workshops we had done together..we knew each other going in. That helped. Throw me in with 30 or 40 others from wherever and I would be nervous!!

Camping in tents for Lewis and Clark! That sounds like a blast!

Our grant has expired but I would love to go on more of these. It was an almost no cost way to see things I would never have gotten to see on my own!

(03-24-2012 10:58 PM)amyrose5 Wrote:
(03-24-2012 08:46 PM)bean Wrote: I have done many of these. We have the same group of us over the past 7 or so yrs..About 40 teachers from my state..got to be good friends with many..we weren't strangers long. 2 years ago...11 days from Dc to Gettysburg and then through the deep south...lots of bus and beer time together...truly great times!!

I did graduate credit trips on covering the Lewis and Clark expedition, start to finish on three separate trips. Camped in tents on two. The places we went were fantastic and the people on the first and third trip were awesome. The second trip had cliques and whiners galore. A few mean girls types to make it really awful.

The seminars I attended were sponsored by Gilder Lehrman Foundation for social studies teachers. If you haven't checked their programs out, google it. They reimburse travel and provide lodging, materials and most meals and you learn so much you can take back to your classroom. I did a seminar on Jefferson at Monticello and the University of Virginia and one on the Sixties at Georgetown.

**WifeofBill** · (This post was last modified: 03-28-2012 03:55 PM by WifeofBill.)

For spring break so far my kids have seen amphicars. Cars that can go from land to water. They are wild. Then this morning they watched the old Orlando arena implode. Makes for an interesting start to Spring break Smile

**Bill** · 03-27-2012, 09:15 PM

Today on vacation we bummed around, went bowling, hit the pool, and then I puked.

**redbeardiam** · 03-27-2012, 09:29 PM

(03-27-2012 09:15 PM)Bill Wrote: Today on vacation we bummed around, went bowling, hit the pool, and then I puked.

Bummer dude.

**Phatchick** · 03-27-2012, 11:12 PM

We're planning to spend our vacation at an SCA camping event. Spend a week living the medieval life while hanging out with people who are as crazy as we are.

**exOBCstudent** · 03-28-2012, 07:25 AM

(03-27-2012 11:12 PM)Phatchick Wrote: We're planning to spend our vacation at an SCA camping event. Spend a week living the medieval life while hanging out with people who are as crazy as we are.

Does the Medieval Life include AC? I don't think I could live without it now. Big Grin