I’m too cheap to pay $100 plus for a motel room otherwise I might.
They just finished off one section (the high point) and seeded it with grass so it’ll probably be done growing for a decade or two.
Yeah with Highway 20 now there’s basically another interstate going across Iowa. Makes 80 obsolete for anyone in the northern 2/3rds since it’s a completely wide open shot all the way. From Holstein all the way to Dubuque you don’t even have to slow down.
My boss just yesterday was booking his next one down to the beach in Bama. He and 2 other sets of families are going to split this place where it's pretty much 400 bucks a day just to have a place to sleep and look out at the water. It'll be his 2 preteen girls 4 adults and 5 other kids all between 2 and 6.... Sounds like a circus not a vacation to me. I'll stay here and hold down the fort.
What's hilarious to me are people who pay actual money to go to places like Cancun, Cabo, etc.
What's hilarious to me are people who pay actual money to go to places like Cancun, Cabo, etc.
Friend of mine and his wife go every year with a group to one of those all-inclusive deals and pay like two grand per person and probably spend another thousand on top of it. And every year they try to get me to go.
I've asked 'em before what all they do, and for 95% of the time they're inside the walls of their resort swimming in a pool when the ocean is like 100 yds away, drinking cocktails, and just sitting around or maybe playing sand volleyball. Once in a while he said they'll do something like parasailing or ziplining but most of the time it's a drunkfest with 1,000 other Americans in a fakey looking Tiki bar. No thanks. If I wanted to party with a bunch of 48 year old yuppies with more money than brains I could find a whole bunch of places close to where I live.
If I were to go on vacation it'd be to get as far away from people as I could, not to hang out with more of them.
I know, I know...how else would I get my picture on the beach with CANCUN 2023 written in the sand, wearing my white canvas shorts, pastel V-neck shirt, and flip flops to post on Facebook???
Damn. Looks like I'm not gonna have that chance. I better book a trip soon...
Damn, there goes the enjoyment of my trip to Puerto Vallarta in three weeks.What's hilarious to me are people who pay actual money to go to places like Cancun, Cabo, etc.
Friend of mine and his wife go every year with a group to one of those all-inclusive deals and pay like two grand per person and probably spend another thousand on top of it. And every year they try to get me to go.
I've asked 'em before what all they do, and for 95% of the time they're inside the walls of their resort swimming in a pool when the ocean is like 100 yds away, drinking cocktails, and just sitting around or maybe playing sand volleyball. Once in a while he said they'll do something like parasailing or ziplining but most of the time it's a drunkfest with 1,000 other Americans in a fakey looking Tiki bar. No thanks. If I wanted to party with a bunch of 48 year old yuppies with more money than brains I could find a whole bunch of places close to where I live.
If I were to go on vacation it'd be to get as far away from people as I could, not to hang out with more of them.
I know, I know...how else would I get my picture on the beach with CANCUN 2023 written in the sand, wearing my white canvas shorts, pastel V-neck shirt, and flip flops to post on Facebook???
Damn. Looks like I'm not gonna have that chance. I better book a trip soon...
Damn, there goes the enjoyment of my trip to Puerto Vallarta in three weeks.
You pretty much described it to a T and you may as well been creeping on my Facebook page.
DARN IT! Everytime I'm hanging out at the swim up bar you'll be inside my head
On a serious note, I'm in a pretty sweet spot right now. Wealthy enough to afford it and young enough to enjoy it. And while it's just the wifey and me this time celebrating our 25th, we have gone with the (slightly older than) 48 year old yuppies you described on previous excursions..
Finding a group of five or six other couples that you can plan numerous trips to the tropics or the cabin up north or for weekend barbecues without any Petty issues is rare indeed. And other people have noticed.
After the social shit show we were forced to go through for the better part f two years I'm holding nothing back now. Many my age aren't as fortunate, or as healthy.
Or as alive.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've done that in my whole life.
