luvsJack
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- Apr 3, 2007
Yeah when you live here:
View attachment 338490 To get to an actual coastal beach takes a while
We really loved Hawaii but it's not an easy trek to get there. Same for when we did our honeymoon in St. Lucia and our trip next month to Jamaica..overall both easier than Hawaii though. I enjoyed Cape Cod as well and that's at least a non-stop flight to Boston with drive after that.
What your beach trips are described as are similarish to our Lake trips. 3+drive from home leaving on Friday or Saturday, enjoy the lake, swim, eat, maybe a bit of shopping at the Outlets (because of where we go to) and then drive back home Sunday. Lot of people either drive down Friday night or Saturday morning then leave sometime Sunday and go back to work on Monday. Normally I'm just tired from being out in the sun combined with driving back home (car rides tend to put me to sleep unless I'm driving lol) on those vacations but it's not as tiring as the other actual beach vacations that's for sure. Honestly I'd probably not label lake trips as vacations so much as weekend getaways just because it's a very common weekend destination for people in my area as opposed to people staying there for a week+. So I guess I have one destination I don't call 'vacation' perse
It’s really interesting to see the way others vacation or travel!
We are blessed with lots of weekend spots pretty close by. “Going to the lake” for us is a 15 minute ride or a 30 minute ride depending on which lake we go to. So during the summer a great weekend spot.
We are actually less than an hour from the MS beach. If we just want a weekend (and don’t plan to get in the water) of beach, we go there. Just for the coastal atmosphere, the beach and the food.
Another weekend get away but more for fall and winter is NOLA. It’s 2 hours away.
The 5 hour trips are more a week long vacation for us lol. We have done a couple of long weekends but love it so much, we wanted more time!