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.

Comments

[snowcalla.livejournal.com]

BC Canada is insanely beautiful! As is Vancouver.

[said-by-me.livejournal.com]

What about a bed and breakfast or a "cabin" in Tahoe (Cabin being really a cottage with all the amenities)

If you come through Sac though on your way to or from I would love to meet up

[introducingyael.livejournal.com]

Is there a city driving distance away that you could visit? Somewhere you can get a hotel room and just exist for a few days? Unless you want to make an itinerary...I've always enjoyed those kinds of trips where you can just get out and discover fun stuff and walk and get lost and not need a plan...because, once your kiddo's born, you need trips with a PLAN.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

Oregon coast/wine country? Not too expensive, no sandy beaches to speak of, definitely not hot unless there is a freak weather accident.

[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

[mz-seshet.livejournal.com]

Okay - don't laugh - but when is Memorial Day? The end of May?

We could do a swap sometime - you stay in our romantic creekside cabin and we'll go stay at your city pad for a weekend! There is SOOO much to do in this area - hiking, good restaurants, boating, kayaking, Loch Lomond is 10 minutes from my house - maybe Adam doesn't like the beach, but the a romantic dinner overlooking the moonlit ocean may change his mind!

I know we still have work to do on our place and so it may not suit your luxury needs, but I have had friends stay for the weekend while we were away and they really enjoyed the quite romantic atmosphere.

[teamrose.livejournal.com]

Yosemite is always a good idea for getting away and just relaxing, plus the weather around Memorial day is so wonderful! We used yosemitepark.com (www.yosemitepark.com) to plan our vacation and it worked out wonderful.

Since you're up in NorCal, I've got to tell you that, Solvang is a wonderful place to go for a vacation. It's a little Danish town and it's really relaxed and quiet. They have cabins and cabin like hotels that don't cost too much, plus the tourist rent these bike cars which are 4 seater bikes that you ride on the streets like a little car. The town is actually a decent sized town but not too large. People mind their own business but they are super friendly and the weather around Memorial day is nice, it's usually about 75-80 during the day and 50 in the evenings. It's a really nice place to take a break and explore - plus you get a Danish history lesson and the food is magnificent. Lol ;x I would tell you about places down here in SoCal it's burning up around the end of May plus a lot of the hot spots are beaches (with SAND! ;x).

[eelsalad.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of B&Bs, especially in cute little towns along the coast. The hubby and I stayed here (http://www.pescaderocreekinn.com/) for our wedding night and swung through Ferndale (http://www.victorianferndale.org/chamber/) on one of our first roadtrips together. Ferndale rocks. Watch out for the used book store, it had some great stuff when I was there.

I gotta say, the whole "drive up the coast and find a place to stay" is a good idea, especially if you do some research so y'all have an idea of what your options are. maybe have Adam do the research so you aren't tempted to do all the planning stuff. :)