Vacations

[theatokos]

Adam and I suck at taking vacations. We often sabotage ourselves - talking ourselves out of spending money on them, or only going to see friends or family, which is important, but defeats the purpose of a private vacation. I usually use my paid vacation time to get home to Alaska. Even then I am such a Planner and Doer that I make sure I get my fishing, hiking and socializing in. This year I'll be using my paid vacation as maternity leave.

At my last midwife appointment, the midwife pretty much told us to take a vacation. I've heard from one or two other new moms that spending some quality time together before the baby comes is crucial. I think we should take a vacation too. We never even took a honeymoon! I talked us out of that one....

But what do we do? Where do we go? We don't have a ton of money. We don't own a car. I'm thinking it might be nice to get out of town over Memorial Day weekend - 4 whole days! But everybody else will be vacationing then too. Our work schedules are super flexible; getting time off is no problem at all, but it would be nice to vacation on a paid holiday, rather than lose money! We can't go camping (no gear, not comfortable at this point in my pregnancy). Adam doesn't like the beach (at least, he doesn't like sandy beaches) and I don't like the hot, so I'd prefer to go north rather than south.

Any suggestions? Seriously. Vacations have me stumped.

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[howilearned.livejournal.com]

gonna second the cabin/cottage ideas. As for places, Crater Lake (also in Oregon) is gorgeous and will be open late April/early May.

Here's a place: http://www.craterlakeresort.com/
No idea if they are good or not but when I camped at the lake I saw a number of these type of places.

Crater Lake itself:
http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~csav/gallery/decker/oregon_crater_lake.php
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paracomp/oregon/large/crater.lake2.jpg
http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/479928.html

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

We're starting to think about either the Lost Coast (north coastal CA) or Big Sur - two places we haven't been and not too far away. Adam told me today that he doesn't want to spend an entire day driving/traveling. Smart, since we will only have a long weekend. Have you been to either of those areas?

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[howilearned.livejournal.com]

Big Sur we have been to. It's Central Coasty, so more wooded and green than the SoCal for sure and a nice place to spend a couple days. It's also somewhat expensive. We stayed in yurts at a wonderful place called Treebones. The yurts were very comfortable, but gave you a sense of being out in nature too. We had a beautiful ocean view the first day, but got fogged in the next few which we understood was par for the course (we were there in August, tho.) They've got the Henry Miller museum, if that's your cup of tea and a number of hikes, both gentle and more strenuous. Also beaches, but they are sandy, so natch. Restaurants were okay, but more pricey then good. If we went back, we'd probably bring our own food.