Vacations of Your Dreams

 

In todays world your vacation might have to be in your dreams for a bit but things are moving in the right direction although incredibly slowly since our worthless Congress is unwilling to remove the shackles from the middle class.

That being said here is one of the vacations of my dreams.

My wife and I have had some fairly good trip in years past by just heading out at the last minute. I would like to leave and head down to I70 in Maryland and just head west and see what we come across. We have found some wonderful small towns and some awesome restaurants by just randomly taking exits off of the Interstates and driving around and seeing what is there.

I70 has an incredibly long route to follow which in my mind will allow us to find some really great things. Check out this mileage sign that you can see west of Baltimore.

There are tons of things to do in all the major cities it passes through which will be fun but I have no doubts that we will find absolutely awesome stuff in the other areas.

I am not sure when we will be able to do this and how much time we will have but this would be a great trip.

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Dili, East Timor

Thanks to Geo-Pick, one of my favorite sites, We have our City of the Day for May 11, 2012.

Dili is the capital of East Timor. The country is on an island approximately halfway between Australia and Indonesia.

The island has apparently been inhabited for over 4000 years based on things found such as cave paintings and things like that. The Chinese started trading with the natives in the 13th century because there was a very large supply of sandalwood forests.

A very good vacation spot from what I have been able to determine based on Research.  From Dili you can take a drive to the coffee growing region of the country. There is also Deep Sea Fishing. The Teak and Sandalwood forests to see and there is an old Government house that has been made into a hotel.

Food options here are not as varied as in some places but still good. You have Filipino, Japanese, Indonesian, Some other varied Asian cuisines and Portuguese since Portugal was here for quite a while for the lumber.

Accommodations range from fairly high end to backpackers hangouts for as little as 5 USD a night.

Nightlife appears to be decent as well. There are a number of bars and at least one disco that I was able to find listed.

I believe that should I ever come into money this is one of the places I would like to see.

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New Format

I am changing up the format a bit. Still researching and giving thoughts on what to see on theoretical vacations but using a web site I just found. Geo-Pick.com is a pretty cool site in that it brings up a random town from about 4000 in it’s database when you go to the site so I will be researching those towns as they come up.

If nothing else I should have a pretty good amount of knowledge of cities around the world should I ever have enough money to actually do any serious travel.

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Vacations This Summer.

I wonder just how many people will not be able to take a vacations this year. Gas prices are at an all time high for this early in the year and they will inevitably go up over the summer. When the cost of the fuel to get you there is equal to or even close to the price the rest of the trip will cost then I am certainly not going there.

This will be a good year to practice the staycation by learning what you have available near you. I will touch on a few areas that I am familiar with that are reasonably close to where I live. By reasonable close I mean you can get there and back on just a couple tanks of gas.

Home for me is the South Central Pennsylvania area in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, York and Gettysburg area. There are loads of things to see and do very close by and quite a lot to see and do within about a 4-5 hour drive.

First, easiest and certainly least expensive would be the very local. Harrisburg itself has a number of very interesting things. The John Harris/Simon Cameron Museum. This is a mansion used first by John Harris Sr. who worked as Ambassador to the Native Americans for William Penn from whom Pennsylvania gets it’s name.

Just a very few miles north of Harrisburg you will find the Rockville Bridge which to this day remains the longest Stone Arch railroad bridge in the world.

About 20 minutes east of the city is a town with a name known by almost everyone in the world. Hershey is a very recognized word and where the first manufacturing facility for Hershey’s chocolate was built. Of course you also have Hershey Park and adjacent to the park is Chocolate World which will take you on a ride through the acquisition of the cacao beans and the process used to create the wonderful; masterpiece known as chocolate.

If you continue on a bit further east you come to Lancaster County which is home to a large number of Amish and has a number of sites and attractions to allow you to learn of them.

From Lancaster we move Southwest and arrive in York, PA which has the distinction of having been the capital of the United States for a short period of time near the beginning of this nation.

From York we move to the west and we come across the site of perhaps the most famous battle of the Civil War. Gettysburg and the National Military Park in and around it can give you days of exploration for those who enjoy history. The battlefield has over 30 miles of roads you can drive while following the signs for a self guided tour or you can get a tape or CD that will narrate your trip. You can also go on a bus tour of the battlefield and for those who like a bit more personal attention there are licensed guides you can hire.

This is a good start to the staycation and I will post more on this shortly.

 

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