What would be your ideal vacation?

Ideal vacation.

Load SanFord, hook up the Samurai, and go that way. Stop places there are no people, see things that no one else wants to see. Solitude is a wonderful thing.

Never come home.

Two week driving loop that covers about 2500 miles of dropping in on people I know and care about. Drinking eating and getting to know each other all over again. Preferably solo.

Honestly, My vacations have been so erratic lately. All wonderful but very erratic. This year, We are meeting the family in Colorado for almost a week and climbing pikes peak on foot. We are also heading to a long weekend in Chicago. Last year it was a week in big bend in the isolation and just spending the days hiking the different trails.

I think next year I'm going to go back to the pac nw. I really enjoyed hanging out and talking with the folks at Dirt Fish this last weekend at the Red Bull GRC event. I think I need to do a day at their rally school and spend the rest of the week hiking around the Mt hood area and the Olympic National Park then finishing in Seattle for a few days.

Of all the vacations I've ever had, my hands down favorite was from when I was 16. My dad and step-mom took my sister (11) for a ten day stay on the island of St Kitts. We stayed in a cabin/hacienda nestled in a grove of palm trees, a one minute walk to the most beautiful beach you've ever seen. Dad rented a mini moke for us and we drove all around the island, eating at different restaurants, touring everything the island had to offer.

It was very casual and non-touristy. A year later we went to Barbados and it was over-developed, busy, and not as magical.

Nick, I did the Disney thing a few years back with the kids. "Dad the pack mule/ATM" was my impression. I carried a backpack full of "essentials" everywhere and money flowed from my wallet like that mouse was holding a 30 hp shopvac to it.

I am hoping next year to make to the Bahamas.. in my own boat. then I spend about 3 of my 5 weeks of vacation sailing about and doing absolutely nothing.

With any luck, I won't come back

Isle of Man TT. Import my bike just for Mad Sunday.

Toyman01 wrote: Ideal vacation. Load SanFord, hook up the Samurai, and go that way. Stop places there are no people, see things that no one else wants to see. Solitude is a wonderful thing. Never come home.

Indeed.

I need one of those camera drones so I can take attention whore selfies to post from my abyss of solitude. Or maybe a camera crew like this guy has.

There are to many car museums and race tracks to see them all.

Buy a medium sized motorhome and tour all the tracks I've never been to. Tow a modernized Volvo 544 for touring the areas near the tracks during the week. 3 or 4 months on the road would suit me fine.

Rincon PR on a winter Cold Front Cold beer and fresh food and herbs and friends big bottle of rum maybe a fire on the beach cold beer SHOUT OUT TO FLYING MIATA FOR THE SHIRT I GOT AT THE MITTY

WildScotsWife and I would land at Edinburgh International, early A.M. on a Monday, local time. Flag a taxi to the local Performance Portfolio office and load our bags into a rented McLaren 570S and head for the Highlands to visit her ancestral Craig lands in Aberdeen, and my Campbell heritage in Argyllshire. And maybe pop in on His Grace, Sir Torquil Campbell, Duke of Argyll, Chief of The Clan. You can do a Monday-Friday 570S rental for only 2100 Pounds Stirling!

Euro Delivery of a new BMW, Mercedes or Volvo ain't a bad way to vacate.

Team O'Neill rally school. I've done the typical vacation crap, and I get bored and sick of all the touristy stuff. I equate the price to a very nice week long vacation to the ocean or something, but I've been there, and again, tourists and touristy stuff. This would be something fun to do, that would teach useful skills and create some very long lasting memories.

I'd love to sail around the world. Not cruise ship, but not kayak. Something in the $20 million dollar range maybe? Big enough that 90% of encountered waves are no problem, but not big enough that we could be considered a small village population wise. Extra special bonus points if I could fish from it. No way do I want to be in the ocean not fishing.

KyAllroad wrote: Of all the vacations I've ever had, my hands down favorite was from when I was 16. My dad and step-mom took my sister (11) for a ten day stay on the island of St Kitts. We stayed in a cabin/hacienda nestled in a grove of palm trees, a one minute walk to the most beautiful beach you've ever seen. Dad rented a mini moke for us and we drove all around the island, eating at different restaurants, touring everything the island had to offer. It was very casual and non-touristy. A year later we went to Barbados and it was over-developed, busy, and not as magical. Nick, I did the Disney thing a few years back with the kids. "Dad the pack mule/ATM" was my impression. I carried a backpack full of "essentials" everywhere and money flowed from my wallet like that mouse was holding a 30 hp shopvac to it.

If you want a replay of the first vacation, I highly recommend a tiny island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Culebra is very much an anti-resort environment. Booze, beaches and snorkeling.

Huckleberry wrote: I spend too much time on advrider. I really want to disappear with a bike, some camping gear and just keep going until I run out of money for gas and ferries and do what I want. It is amazing how much opposition wives can have to an idea like that. I'll settle for a month touring North America. I really want to hike in Banff, the PNW, ride canyons in CA, raft the Grand Caynon... . I would excel at being a lotto winner. I should play one of these days.

Yea, this guy^^^

I hope I die before I have to go back to Disney World. I hate fake stuff.

I'd like to take another road trip to Canada with a bunch of guys from high school, in crappy cars with very little cash and no family obligations. Just beer and Canadian girls who speak French.

In reply to NOHOME:

And if you go to Culebra- find someone who will take you out to Culebrita. It's like a mini version of Culebra, but nobody is out there.

Culebra is great- very quiet and peaceful. We need to go back there some time.

I'd take hard labor in a Siberian salt mine over my job this morning

I would really like to take on an epic, extended road trip of America as others have mentioned. Get outside and really spend some time getting acquainted with the natural beauty we are so blessed with. I am especially drawn to the southwest and have generally flown out to Nevada or Arizona for a week at a time every couple of years. LOVE IT. I feel like I want to drive out there for an extended stay.

The last few vacations we've done the Air B&B/VRBO model; rent a place and live there. Walk the town, shop at the local stores, cook the stuff you get at the grocery, and drink the local wine. Granted it's best to do this in more interesting places (related to Woody's point, French speaking locations seem to be good for this).

A month or more backpacking in the Sierra or the Hugh Uintas or the Wind River range. The longer I'm above 10,000 feet, the happier I am.

Prolly Goodwood followed by the Hawk.

I'm torn between driving a 4x4 rig across South America and driving a supercar across Europe.

Woody wrote: I'd like to take another road trip to Canada with a bunch of guys from high school, in crappy cars with very little cash and no family obligations. Just beer and Canadian girls who speak French.

Quebec girls are nuts.

My favorite vacations are trips to Cozumel. I dive every morning - which is almost like meditation - then eat something fresh and read a book with my feet in the sand. No internet. No phones. No TV. I don't even get in a car between the taxi rides to and from the airport.

When I was younger, a week-long blitz across Europe with a few friends in three Miatas was right up there. We sought out all the best roads, stayed in interesting hotels and usually spent more on a three hour dinner than we did our accommodations. But now I like to put down roots in a place for a while instead.

My wife loves to travel, but I could take it or leave it. As a compromise, we try and include a 'car thing' into each major trip. That way I've been to the British F1Grand Prix, the Silverstone Classic, the Monterrey Historics, the Festival of Speed at Goodwood, Lemans (just the course, not the race - 'though I did get to stand on the podium. Can you say you've been on the podium at Lemans? ), the Schlumph Museum in Mulhouse, the Beaulieu museum, and the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. All worth doing!