Travel planning
Dec. 28th, 2012 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI'm planning to take some vacation time in early April, and I think I want to go somewhere for part of it. I'm not sure where, though, so I'm opening the floor to suggestions. Where should I go? Financial and time constraints limit me to the continental US or perhaps parts of Canada. I'm planning to take a week or maybe six days off, and I want some of those days to be spent at home doing nothing, so any trip is probably going to be limited to four or five days, including travel time.
What I most love to do on vacation is take pictures. (You may have noticed this.) I like walking around in beautiful scenery--beaches, mountains, meadows, lakes, I like pretty much all of it--though not hugely strenuous hiking and definitely not camping. I also love museums, interesting buildings, and other big city cultural and historical things. I have been equally thrilled with the Smithsonian in DC and wandering around on mountains in Arizona. I'm not much for just lazing around on a beach, though; there should be more to it than that, even if "more to it" is a historical lighthouse or something. Nightlife holds absolutely no interest for me.
Places where one needs to rent a car are fine, although I try to avoid driving in snow; public transportation is equally fine.
For some reason, Santa Fe is calling to me. It sounds nifty and pictures of it look cool, and the weather would probably be decent. In the other direction, Cape Hatteras is also on my to-see list, and this would avoid the tourist season (and I don't swim anyway, so a cold ocean doesn't matter as long as the weather is warmish). I'd like to go to the Pacific Northwest someday, but early spring might be too cold and rainy. Boston, perhaps? The idea of it makes my historian's heart go pitter-pat. Or I could go back out to California; I hear the Big Sur drive is lovely.
But most importantly: anyone want to meet up somewhere interesting? Or meet up where you live?
What I most love to do on vacation is take pictures. (You may have noticed this.) I like walking around in beautiful scenery--beaches, mountains, meadows, lakes, I like pretty much all of it--though not hugely strenuous hiking and definitely not camping. I also love museums, interesting buildings, and other big city cultural and historical things. I have been equally thrilled with the Smithsonian in DC and wandering around on mountains in Arizona. I'm not much for just lazing around on a beach, though; there should be more to it than that, even if "more to it" is a historical lighthouse or something. Nightlife holds absolutely no interest for me.
Places where one needs to rent a car are fine, although I try to avoid driving in snow; public transportation is equally fine.
For some reason, Santa Fe is calling to me. It sounds nifty and pictures of it look cool, and the weather would probably be decent. In the other direction, Cape Hatteras is also on my to-see list, and this would avoid the tourist season (and I don't swim anyway, so a cold ocean doesn't matter as long as the weather is warmish). I'd like to go to the Pacific Northwest someday, but early spring might be too cold and rainy. Boston, perhaps? The idea of it makes my historian's heart go pitter-pat. Or I could go back out to California; I hear the Big Sur drive is lovely.
But most importantly: anyone want to meet up somewhere interesting? Or meet up where you live?
