but you never take me anywhere. wah.
Feb. 5th, 2010 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynSince our vacation plans fell through after we talked while there was no internet here... we realized we'd both assumed the other person was gung ho. And we were both actually meh.
Now we're back at square zero. ... we want to go somewhere where there's something to see/do that cannot be done at home. We've gone on weekend trips where we just stay somewhere nice-ish and eat out, but the last one we almost spent the day shopping at Target because there was nothing to do there.
I want to do something hands-on but stay somewhere posh. I'd like a crafts camp or something at a nice country inn, but it would have to have some parallel tracked courses because crafts aren't popular with both of us.
I wouldn't mind a (supported: suitcases trucked along, etc.) biking type holiday if it was mostly flat and the weather was good. It's just weird how almost all those outdoorsy type trip ideas assume you're Edmund Hillary. I like being outside but I'm not hugely athletic. It's really hard to have a "Sunday drive" kind of biking tour, like the Lake District rambles popularized by British authors, if you live in the city. But there's really no reason to assume I'm going to be able to walk 15-25 miles a day given my current routine.
We're not really willing to fly anywhere. They treat regular people like criminals and let the actual criminals onto the planes. Might as well do jack squat and treat people decently. But I guess I could reconsider all options. Still, absolutely no New York. No "The South". No Africa. They have to speak a language we can get by in. That's pretty limited at this point to non-Arabic and non-Asian countries.
At this point, I'm so overwhelmed that even big ticket things underwhelm me. I was explaining that we didn't want to go to the Grand Canyon because it's just a pretty hole in the ground and they probably don't have food there since it's a national park. Mostly though, it always looks crowded or effing frigid. As in, "Where's your coat, you moron? Don't you know you're in the mountains?"
I already live where there are more people per square foot than there are chickens per proportional area in a factory farm. It's stopped being novel a while ago. The food's good, and during the week there are lots of nifty restaurants within walking distance.
Go ahead and suggest things assuming price is no object. I'm very frugal, but I'm not expecting a hotel in Paris to be the same price as a motel room in flyover country.
Now we're back at square zero. ... we want to go somewhere where there's something to see/do that cannot be done at home. We've gone on weekend trips where we just stay somewhere nice-ish and eat out, but the last one we almost spent the day shopping at Target because there was nothing to do there.
I want to do something hands-on but stay somewhere posh. I'd like a crafts camp or something at a nice country inn, but it would have to have some parallel tracked courses because crafts aren't popular with both of us.
I wouldn't mind a (supported: suitcases trucked along, etc.) biking type holiday if it was mostly flat and the weather was good. It's just weird how almost all those outdoorsy type trip ideas assume you're Edmund Hillary. I like being outside but I'm not hugely athletic. It's really hard to have a "Sunday drive" kind of biking tour, like the Lake District rambles popularized by British authors, if you live in the city. But there's really no reason to assume I'm going to be able to walk 15-25 miles a day given my current routine.
We're not really willing to fly anywhere. They treat regular people like criminals and let the actual criminals onto the planes. Might as well do jack squat and treat people decently. But I guess I could reconsider all options. Still, absolutely no New York. No "The South". No Africa. They have to speak a language we can get by in. That's pretty limited at this point to non-Arabic and non-Asian countries.
At this point, I'm so overwhelmed that even big ticket things underwhelm me. I was explaining that we didn't want to go to the Grand Canyon because it's just a pretty hole in the ground and they probably don't have food there since it's a national park. Mostly though, it always looks crowded or effing frigid. As in, "Where's your coat, you moron? Don't you know you're in the mountains?"
I already live where there are more people per square foot than there are chickens per proportional area in a factory farm. It's stopped being novel a while ago. The food's good, and during the week there are lots of nifty restaurants within walking distance.
Go ahead and suggest things assuming price is no object. I'm very frugal, but I'm not expecting a hotel in Paris to be the same price as a motel room in flyover country.
