What does everybody do for holiday?

[Texan]

The past few years, I have been all work and no play. I use my vacation to get projects done around the house, visit my son and his family off in the military, paint my son's house so he can make a profit from selling it while he is deployed, selling vacation time back to the company to keep a paycheck coming during covid quarantine, etc........ With my kids growing and requiring more money for school, cars, etc, I just haven't had time or money to get out with MT and enjoy myself in years. We are trying to change this. My son will soon be stateside, my other sons are settled in school and other endeavors, so now that MT is working and we have more disposable income, we are planning to let our hair down a bit. We are looking to buy a Jeep Gladiator and do some offroading/camping trips when possible.

This is what we are looking into buying/building. It's a little more extreme than what we want to do, but you get the idea.



I'd like to join an offroad or Jeep club and do organized trips like this in West Texas.

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I'm not so much into rock crawling, but the overlanding in remote areas. We've done lots of camping and hiking in state parks, but the Jeep will let us get out into the wild and maybe see bears, wolves, mountain lions, etc......(from a distance) Beaches are fun in a Jeep also. We camped on North Padre Island in our Jeep several years ago. We were 100km from the nearest road.


What kind of recreation do you do or have you done while on holiday?

[Nom De Plume]

What kind of recreation do you do or have you done while on holiday?

Mainly, I would travel overseas...
I have taken 12 months leave without pay and travelled around Australia... which was pretty cool.

Long weekends would see me scuba diving, abseiling and low risk rocking climbing. I also like caving and tandem paragliding... and hiking.

All the while, when on holidays or not, I indulge in cultural pursuits... plays, ballet, musicals, concerts, art galleries, street events....

I don't do camping, I do glamping...

[sprintcyclist]

We often fly somewhere, hire a car and accommodation.
Use the accommodation as a base and drive around that area for 2 --> 4 weeks. Then fly back.

Nice areas have been High Country of Victoria (Mt Bawbaw) in Autumn.
WA for a month - Perth and South of there.

On the horizon is the Blue Mountains and South Island of NZ.

[Texan]

We've tent camped a lot. We do lots of hiking. Sometimes we go horseback riding. We've done trips with a Jeep club. We attend plays, do waterslides, amusement parks or even zip lining.

Arkansas has a Passion Play set in the Ozark Mountains (The story of Christ) and there is a huge production of the founding of the Republic of Texas in the Palo Durham Canyon. There are several natural caverns we've visited. Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico has 5 km of trails to the bottom.

I'd like to get a pontoon boat and spend entire weekends boating and fishing. We did that some with the men in our church when I was a child. We'd camp at the lake and fish in boats most of the night. We'd bring 4 or 5 boats and there would be 20-30 men and boys. Good times, and I'm still good friends with most of those men and their parents. We don't see each other much, but we are like brothers when we do see each other.

[Mortdooley]

Last year the plandemic canceled our cruise, we were paid in full waiting for June.

9-DAY CRUISE ON NORWEGIAN ESCAPE Scandinavia, Russia & Baltic from Copenhagen, Denmark With a day visiting Copenhagen before the cruise and two day visit to London on the way home. If international travel is too restricted and we don't get to do it this year we hope to trade it for a cruise in Hawaii.

Most of the time we take a flight to other parts of the country, spend three or four days visiting the area and fly home. We have been coast to coast and border to border doing it. Twice we have taken cruises, the last one out of the Port of Galveston to the Bahamas. The first was a flight to Seattle for an Alaskan cruise. I hope to take a cruise out of Galveston again as soon as it is available, I almost don't care where it goes as long as we can get away!