Vacation

Heading to Wilmington, DE next week for my Mom's 80th and her art opening at the DCCA.

Heading back to the D.R. in January.

Started the planning process for spring desert trip (Robbers Roost/Spur).

In March:

Chile>Argentina>Falklands>Uruguay>Argentina>Chile

30 Year retrospective. She's way into fibers. She's was one of the founders of the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (DCCA).

>>>Hungary

I was just there this past summer.  Budapest is my new favorite city.   You might want to reconsuder it.

I have my eye on Argentina, Ken.

How much time for that itinerary?

That sounds awesome , Ken! Skipping Peru??

Hey Ken, pretty sure my email is in my profile. If you need any tips for travelling in Chile, or wanna hang out and get a brew when (if) you're in Santiago, let me know! I know we've never met, but it would be fun to hang out with a fellow old-school Missoula head! :)

Doh. Not in my profile. It's j c yoacham at gmail dot com. :)

As for me and the fam, we've got tickets bought, hotels paid for in Salvador do Bahía in Brazil for the end of January (our summer vacation). 10 days of drinks, food, beach and not a whole lot else. Good times!

I custied it up and am off to Phish/Mexico in February.  Pacific NW & Northern California is in the planning stages for next summer.

Going to Yachats on the Oregon coast this weekend 

Now that the kids are grown me and the wife have been doing more little weekend getaways. Next one looks like fishing in Ft Pierce while on our way to see DSO in Ft Lauderdale first week of November

Fabes....check to see if our red tide has washed out or not......been thick St Lucie and north to Coco

Hey Javs.  I was certainly planning on looking you up when I am in Santiago.  I will be down in South America for three weeks.  The first two weeks is actually a cruise with my parents (although cruise ships are not my thing, my parents love it and at their age, its a good way for them to travel).  We are starting in Santiago and working our way down around the tip of the continent through the Straits of Magellan, with stops in the Falklands and Uruguay before ending up in Buenos Aires.   Then my brother and I have a week to get back to Santiago on land through the Andes.     

Have a blast in Brazil. 

Wow, Ken, that's way cool. Cruises aren't my thing, either, but I did that very cruise two summers ago on the Norwegian Pearl (I think) with my inlaws who are all about the cruises. The one we did was in the other direction, though. Same ship just on the way back (Buenos Aires, around the Strait, up to Santiago). The trip was awesome. The food was delicious, accommodations comfortable and we saw amazing places. The Falkland Islands are way cool, Ushuaia in Argentina is amazing too. If you can, in Ushuaia take a trip to the Tierra del Fuego National Park. It's beautiful. The rest of the trip is really nice, too. We hit a pretty serious storm on the way from the Falklands back to the Strait, which made a lot of people not feel so good, and I think one older fella may have had a heart attack so we had to cut the Strait out of the itinerary and head straight for Ushuaia. Nonetheless, an amazing trip. Let me know when you're gonna be around and what kinds of things you feel like doing, and I'll be more than happy to give you pointers where I can. Word of advice for the cruise ship: shell out for a box of wine (12 bottles) or more at the beginning of the trip, if wine is your thing. That way you'll have a stock of wine waiting for you throughout the trip, and they have a really wide variety of vineyards from all over the world.

"Ironing out plans for 2019.  Holland, France, Belgium, and Germany.  We were originally thinking Hungary, Prague and Germany."

That sounds like an amazing trip, 4winds! I prefer your new option over the original one, though both sound amazing, for sure! :)

>>>>Word of advice for the cruise ship: shell out for a box of wine (12 bottles) or more at the beginning of the trip, if wine is your thing

We did an 11 day cruise to the Eastern Caribbean this year with the folks and everyone in our party brought aboard their allowable wine limit.  However, we quickly learned that the x-ray screening when you get back on the boat at the end of the day was pretty easy to trick and we ended up sneaking aboard three gallons of rum and 24 beers during the trip.   The x-ray machine ignored canned beers and the rum we just put into water or juice bottles.  We are talking about doing that again with pisco as we work our way through the various ports of call.  

My vacations are over for 2018...a week at Kripalu for Summer Camp with Bela and Flecktones at Tanglewood tacked on to the end. Peach Fest. A trip to visit friends in Castle Rock outside of Denver with a Sat night Greensky  RR show. It was a good year!!! Looking at https://musicmasterscamps.com/ for 2019.

Hey NedB, which exhibit is your Mom's? I see 2 or 3 exhibits opening. I'm a Wilmington native, lived here all my 57 years. A friend of mine had a studio for a while at DCCA. I also have a connection to LinneaTobber. I may stop in and check the exhibit out.

https://youtu.be/sKKHNx1pnzE

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The last couple of years, I've had to mostly sacrifice vacations for trips to visit family, primarily my parents, who are in their twilight years.     It's great to have them around and have the chance to visit with them, but they aren't too mobile anymore, so we don't do much sight-seeing.  

I did get in a nice short visit to Portland, Oregon last year for the Phil shows at the Crystal, and combined a visit with one of my brothers and his family earlier this month for HSB weekend in S.F., which was really nice.  Otherwise, I'll be making my sixth transcontinental flight in the last year to visit with my folks at another brother's house in Katonah, New York to celebrate Thanksgiving  before flying back home for the Thanksgiving weekend ramp up to the Christmas retail season.

I'd love to make a South America trip some day, and still have my sights set on returning to the Hawaiian Islands.  A lot depends on my family situation, so we'll see how far I travel this year.  It is nice to travel vicariously through some of the travelogues posted here.  Johnny D, Hall, Roshambo, Portland Ken, Hoover, Disco Stu, Tim, thanks, enjoy your tales.

gonna book flights this week for my annual Xmas jaunt from NorCal to Central New York State (Syracuse area), near where I grew up and spent the first 24 years of my life...

a relatively short stay, only about 10 days, to spend time with family over the holidays... my dad is almost 93 and my Mom is going on 89, thankfully both without dementia but dealing with difficult mobility issues... they had their 68th wedding anniversary this past September

Tim - thanks for the heads up, going to make other plans. I think I will be bringing the boat down there for a weekend in the winter/spring time. Looks a lot like Titusville down there around the inlet, which suites me fine, no high rises and a bunch of islands and inlets, and hopefully not crowded. Even the beaches south of there on a1a look like you would have a nice section of beach all to yourself, or even with no one around, again like Titusville. 

40 Days in the Hole

Actually 40 days until our trip tp Patagonia!!!

Fly back 9:30pm New Years Eve, best way to avoid that stupid holiday, be in the air

Can't wait

I have not read it, just googled and read a summery . Not sure its in my wheelhouse, but am open to hearing why you like it. Maybe I'll change my mind. I am waiting for Tweedy's book to come out on Tuesday then my Kindle want list is open, so convince me :)

ok fair enough, i'll see if kindle has a free sample as they sometimes do