The great thing about going on a wonderful family vacation is all the time I get to spend with my wife and kids. The bad thing is that as soon as we get back, I’m back to the same old grind and it’s as if nothing ever happened. Depressing sometimes.
I’m looking forward to next year though, since it will be my 20 year wedding anniversary. We could use some suggestions on places to go. We’ve considered a Mediterranean cruise, a trip to Hawaii, an Alaskan cruise, and a trip to England or France. Give me YOUR suggestions in the comments below. This is a special trip and we’ve been saving for it for quite some time.
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Hope you have a great vacation! I know what you mean about the grind. I’m working on that too.
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I will one day go to Egypt, but for a trip like you are looking for, my wife and I want to go to Ireland.
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My husband and I went on an Alaskan cruise for our honeymoon 2 years ago. It was awesome! We went on the Holland America line, which from what I understand, is a little more upscale than say, Carnival or Royal Carribean.
It was seven nights and we sailed round-trip from Seattle. Ports of call included Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Victoria B.C., and one day in Glacier Bay.
Beautiful scenery! Amazing, truly.
So peaceful, and the food was the best I’ve ever had.
There’s lots to do on board, and you can also just plain relax. The ship I was on had a few pools and one of them was under a retractable roof, so you could swim even though it was too cool to swim outdoors.
We didn’t do any paid excursions — we just wandered about each port city on our own. It was a lot of fun!
Email me if you have any questions or would like to see some photos of our trip.
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Let’s face it: despite many people’s protestations to the contrary, too many folks have an automatic trust of government. When there is a problem, many of us don’t like to think of government as the problem but as the solution. Add to that the near phobia that many have about economics as business and what do we get? Pretty much what we have now: a government going billions of dollars IN debt in attempts to get the economy OUT of debt, We get a government doing such idiotic things as bailing out companies for whom bankruptcy is imminent and buying up banks.
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Thanks for the love, Ron.
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