Mini-Vacations

I have settled on three possible sites to take a mini-vacation. Great Falls in Virginia, the Shenandoah National Park, also in Virginia and historic Philadelphia. The initial plan is to take one (or two) during this years spring break. Of the three, only Great Falls can truly be completed on a days trip. The other two are are both 2 to 3 hours away and would need serious planning to pull off.

Still making plans for the week vacation in July, had considered Tennessee (quickly going down in rank), Maine and Myrtle Beach. Any suggestions?

A New Year

Happy New Year to all! It is 2012 and another year has gone by, a new year in which the challenge is to take a vacation at places I have not actually had the opportunity to visit in the past. Locations that may be so near that people would be surprised how I could not have visited by now. I am however, one of those people who have lived in a small town all their life and yet have not visited every nook and cranny of that town. What more a small city, county or even state? To get the most out of this challenge, I have decided that I need to get two things planned out.

• Plan to take mini-vacations. Those that last at most a weekend, but can actually be as short as a day. Maybe those should be called micro-vacations.
• Plan, as early as January (I got a couple more days), that one to two week vacation that I would like to take. 

The second one might not be too easy to accomplish. We have normally taken vacation with Family and Friends. That means we would need to coordinate our schedules. There are businesses that require it's employees to choose a schedule the first week of the year, which could mean I've lucked out by waiting till the end of the month. My wife and her girlfriends have already gotten their "No husbands around" vacation weekend scheduled. Hmm, maybe that in itself could be a vacation for us guys?