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re: What is the worst vacation you've ever been on...
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:58 am to DupontsCircle
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:58 am to DupontsCircle
Family trip to ATL. It was hotter than the surface of the sun all weekend. Went to two Braves games, they scored 0 runs total. Got attacked by blackbirds in a park and they left welts all over my neck. I was wearing a crimson hat that apparently set them off.
Turns out blackbirds hate Alabama. Who knew
Turns out blackbirds hate Alabama. Who knew
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:58 am to Popths
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Gatlinburg last year
If you aren't screwing in a cabin hot tub or exploring the national park, you are doing it wrong.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 9:59 am to Dam Guide
It's not my favorite way to get ringworm, but it'll do.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:00 am to Displaced
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It's not my favorite way to get ringworm, but it'll do.
you know it to be true
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:01 am to DupontsCircle
I have gone to Disney once, when I was a kid... I think I was 8 or 9 years old. It was okay, of course it didn't have everything it had now, but my favorite part of it was Epcot.
While I understand parents wanting to bring their kids there once, I do not understand those who continue to go back on a regular basis.. But if that's what they like who am I to say they shouldn't?
Anyway, the worst vacation I went on.. I think it was the summer before my freshman year of high school. My mom and I went on a camping trip with three of my other aunts (one of their husband's) and their kids.
We drove all day then stopped somewhere, put up the tents, etc went to sleep, got up, picked up everything and got back into our vehicles and got back on the road. We did this until we got to Wyoming. Went Through Texas, Oklahoma, & Colorado. I forgot how long it took us to get there, but I want to say the first night we camped in Texas, the next day we were still in Texas and camped out there the 2nd night in a row then on the third day we went into Oklahoma, where we stopped to grocery shop then camped somewhere in Colorado.
The next day we drove to Colorado Springs. We got there later afternoon and stayed there for a day. Then the next night we camped somewhere close to Wyoming. The next night, the plan was to drive and when it was time to stop they would just find a camp ground. Well, as it got later and later, the only place they could find was this area that had no facilities, there were only a few vehicles there and we had to end up sleeping on our vehicles. We had 5 adults and 9 kids ranging from the age of about 3 - 15.
Me and my cousins who were near the same age as me gambled for most of the beginning of the trip until we started fighting and one of my cousins won a big pot, put down the window stuck his hand with the money, out of the window, waving it to all the cars passing by.
Riding all day is boring and teenagers and kids do stupid shite. My little cousin, she was 3 or 4 at the time. She told us she wanted to be an indian, so we took markers, that we didn't really know was permanent markers and drew all over her face like an indian. When we stopped and had to go grocery shopping, when her mom realized we drew all over her face with permanent markers and she had to go into public with it all over her face, she went crazy on us.
When we were close to Colorado Springs, we saw a bear going up the mountain so they stopped so everyone could watch it. Several of my cousins jump out of the vehicle and decided to go chase it. Between all of us fighting and doing stupid shite, the adults decided they were going to make the rest of the trip miserable for us. It ended up being a huge cluster frick of a trip.
While I understand parents wanting to bring their kids there once, I do not understand those who continue to go back on a regular basis.. But if that's what they like who am I to say they shouldn't?
Anyway, the worst vacation I went on.. I think it was the summer before my freshman year of high school. My mom and I went on a camping trip with three of my other aunts (one of their husband's) and their kids.
We drove all day then stopped somewhere, put up the tents, etc went to sleep, got up, picked up everything and got back into our vehicles and got back on the road. We did this until we got to Wyoming. Went Through Texas, Oklahoma, & Colorado. I forgot how long it took us to get there, but I want to say the first night we camped in Texas, the next day we were still in Texas and camped out there the 2nd night in a row then on the third day we went into Oklahoma, where we stopped to grocery shop then camped somewhere in Colorado.
The next day we drove to Colorado Springs. We got there later afternoon and stayed there for a day. Then the next night we camped somewhere close to Wyoming. The next night, the plan was to drive and when it was time to stop they would just find a camp ground. Well, as it got later and later, the only place they could find was this area that had no facilities, there were only a few vehicles there and we had to end up sleeping on our vehicles. We had 5 adults and 9 kids ranging from the age of about 3 - 15.
Me and my cousins who were near the same age as me gambled for most of the beginning of the trip until we started fighting and one of my cousins won a big pot, put down the window stuck his hand with the money, out of the window, waving it to all the cars passing by.
Riding all day is boring and teenagers and kids do stupid shite. My little cousin, she was 3 or 4 at the time. She told us she wanted to be an indian, so we took markers, that we didn't really know was permanent markers and drew all over her face like an indian. When we stopped and had to go grocery shopping, when her mom realized we drew all over her face with permanent markers and she had to go into public with it all over her face, she went crazy on us.
When we were close to Colorado Springs, we saw a bear going up the mountain so they stopped so everyone could watch it. Several of my cousins jump out of the vehicle and decided to go chase it. Between all of us fighting and doing stupid shite, the adults decided they were going to make the rest of the trip miserable for us. It ended up being a huge cluster frick of a trip.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:03 am to DupontsCircle
Took family to Atlantis.
frick that place.
frick that place.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:04 am to DupontsCircle
Went to Phoenix in October a couple of years ago to play baseball in the NABA Nationals. Done this trip several times in years past. This time, we stayed at a bargain "suites" hotel where the "suite" was just a room with a kitchenette.
Room smelled musty and moldy, had to be aired out constantly. Moved to another room, same smell. Couldn't change hotels because paid in advance through Priceline.
Couldn't go to any national parks because the federal government was shut down because of budget squabbles.
Cancelled a day trip to Prescott because the whole city was in mourning over the loss of 13 firefighters in a wildfire.
Nothing much to do but dine out and lose $$$ at Indian casinos. Golf out because of the wife being there with me. We had already been to Sedona, Grand Canyon, Bisbee, and Tombstone on previous trips.
Our team lost nearly every game, missed playoffs. Went home early and disgusted at considerable extra expense.
Worst thing was The Lovely & Talented Mrs. Lammo was so pissed and disgusted at my morose and whiny arse, she said she'd never go back to Phoenix for baseball ever again.
Room smelled musty and moldy, had to be aired out constantly. Moved to another room, same smell. Couldn't change hotels because paid in advance through Priceline.
Couldn't go to any national parks because the federal government was shut down because of budget squabbles.
Cancelled a day trip to Prescott because the whole city was in mourning over the loss of 13 firefighters in a wildfire.
Nothing much to do but dine out and lose $$$ at Indian casinos. Golf out because of the wife being there with me. We had already been to Sedona, Grand Canyon, Bisbee, and Tombstone on previous trips.
Our team lost nearly every game, missed playoffs. Went home early and disgusted at considerable extra expense.
Worst thing was The Lovely & Talented Mrs. Lammo was so pissed and disgusted at my morose and whiny arse, she said she'd never go back to Phoenix for baseball ever again.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:10 am to Dam Guide
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I no longer go on vacations with family so I don't have to deal with hers.
Honestly, I'm about done doing vacations with others. Everyone has their own style of vacationing, and you end up having to do shite you don't want to do.
Even when I've taken small girls' trips, there's always the girl who is "too tired" and in bed by 9pm.
I'll stick to just vacationing with my SO whose vacationing style matches mine and we don't have to do anything we don't want.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:11 am to LouisianaLady
Having grown up around here, it still blows my mind that people vacation in Branson
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:16 am to arkyhawk
I'll take it a step further. My parents loved northern Arkansas/Missouri so much we went back ~5-6 times because they wanted to move there.
They even bought a house in Nixa (if you know where that is), but then changed their minds before we could move.
They even bought a house in Nixa (if you know where that is), but then changed their minds before we could move.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:21 am to arkyhawk
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Having grown up around here, it still blows my mind that people vacation in Branson
What does one do in Branson? Is it like a Gatlinburg?
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:26 am to DupontsCircle
I don't think I've ever had a bad vacation but I've never been to Disney so that's probably why
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:29 am to LouisianaLady
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Honestly, I'm about done doing vacations with others. Everyone has their own style of vacationing, and you end up having to do shite you don't want to do.
You are right about this.. And people who you normally have no problem being around, after the trip, all of a sudden you feel like you need to be away from them for awhile.
There is a group of us who would get together on the weekends, play cards, watch games, etc. It's more like getting together with family than friends. We eventually started going somewhere once a year and the first time it was cool, there were a few disagreements but nothing that was a big deal.
But then it got to the point where some people wanted to spend more time here while other people wanted to spend more time there. I don't really plan with them as a group. I go on the trip and if there is something I want to do that they don't have interest in doing, I just tell them "ill catch up with yall later", but everyone ends up complaining to be about the other people. And I tell them all the same thing. "how hard is it to not do everything with each other?"
The last trip we took was to Vegas. They all made out pretty much planned it all out hour by hour. This time to this time we will do this. Whatever I had an interest in doing, that they planned, I got tickets for or would meet them at whatever time they were going to be there, but other than that, I just sort of "played it all by ear". If I was doing something I enjoyed, I didn't want to have to stop at a certain time because "it was the plan". Anyway, on the way to the airport and in the airport, I get to hear all of the complaints everyone had of each other.
This person wanted to go eat somewhere and they didn't really want to go and it turned out it wasn't good at all.
Someone wanted to go do something, but they didn't get a chance because everyone else wanted to go do something that wasn't interested to them. Again, I was like "how hard is it to just go do what the frick you want?".
Then when the trip is over, you get the full story from each person and they pretty much cause all of their "problems" themselves.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:33 am to lammo
My wife and I were a few months from being married and my wife's little brother was on a soccer team that won the state championship in Mississippi, and was playing in a regional tournament at Panama City.
Somehow we got talked into going on this trip to watch "the greatest 12 year old soccer team Mississippi had ever produced" win its way to the national tournament.
We figured we would hang out at the beach while they spent the day at the soccer fields. No. My mother in law insisted that we come and watch every game. Thunderstorms came in and it delayed games so we basically did nothing but watch 12 year old soccer and go to cheap restaurants the entire time.
The worst part, they quickly found out that their team wasn't the only one that was stacked. A team from North Carolina beat them 12-0. They didn't get blown out in the other two games, but they only scored one goal total. So my father in law was pissed the entire time and the trip back was hell.
Somehow we got talked into going on this trip to watch "the greatest 12 year old soccer team Mississippi had ever produced" win its way to the national tournament.
We figured we would hang out at the beach while they spent the day at the soccer fields. No. My mother in law insisted that we come and watch every game. Thunderstorms came in and it delayed games so we basically did nothing but watch 12 year old soccer and go to cheap restaurants the entire time.
The worst part, they quickly found out that their team wasn't the only one that was stacked. A team from North Carolina beat them 12-0. They didn't get blown out in the other two games, but they only scored one goal total. So my father in law was pissed the entire time and the trip back was hell.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:55 am to LouisianaLady
We do trips with other families pretty often. Going to playa del Carmen with another family in two weeks. Benefits kids cause they have others to play with while we do adult things.
We never share rooms though, always have separate space
We never share rooms though, always have separate space
Posted on 5/24/17 at 10:58 am to DupontsCircle
quote:there are a couple of them on this board and the Travel board and yes they are creepily weird guys, or come across so in their e-personalities at least
The men I've met here that are really into Disney stuff give me a creepy vibe for the most part.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:14 am to Jimmy2shoes
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Dogpatch USA the hillbilly theme park in R-Kansas
You could pay to catch a fish in a pond.
Ya' killin' me, Smalls. Dogpatch was one of the highlights of my pre-10 yrs old vacations. I thought it was a cool little place, and I DID pay (or my Dad did) to catch a fish!
Cut me some slack... I was 9 or 10 yrs old. BTW, I hear Dogpatch is now a major urban explorer stop to go see the old ruins.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:15 am to LouisianaLady
One of the worst things you can do to me is put me on a schedule or plan.
Disney World is all about a plan and it drives me nuts. I stayed in the first half of the day. I've been nothing but harassed by the other half of my family for not going out to the parks.
This is driving me nuts. I'm 32. I have no kids. This was a mistake. I'm hating my life at the moment.
Disney World is all about a plan and it drives me nuts. I stayed in the first half of the day. I've been nothing but harassed by the other half of my family for not going out to the parks.
This is driving me nuts. I'm 32. I have no kids. This was a mistake. I'm hating my life at the moment.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:17 am to DupontsCircle
When I was in the tenth grade my family and I went on a trip to Gatlinburg after Christmas. On Christmas Eve my uncle (my mom's brother), who my siblings and I were close to, passed away. He was the only sibling my mom had, and her parents were already deceased, so it was obviously extremely painful for her and all of us. Anyway, we had the funeral a couple of days after Christmas, and we left the next day to go to Gatlinburg.
It had snowed quite a bit up there on Christmas, but we still anticipated that we could get to the cabin we were staying in, since no one at the rental company had told us otherwise. We get to the check in place in Pigeon Forge and we are told that we cannot get to the cabin, that the roads are not passable. We are told by these people that they tried to call us, which they did, they called our house phone hours after we were already on the road and on our way there, even though they also had our cell phone numbers.
We had two pets with us, so a hotel wasn't possible, plus we went to be in a secluded cabin, not small hotel rooms. We found a place to stay that night, but every cabin we tried to book so that we could continue our trip, was either unreachable or got booked right before we could book it. A lot of people were in the same boat we were and were scrambling to find a new cabin accommodation, as well.
We ended up leaving and coming back to Birmingham the next day. Our week was already bad, as any week where you buried a loved one is, so this just intensified that.
It had snowed quite a bit up there on Christmas, but we still anticipated that we could get to the cabin we were staying in, since no one at the rental company had told us otherwise. We get to the check in place in Pigeon Forge and we are told that we cannot get to the cabin, that the roads are not passable. We are told by these people that they tried to call us, which they did, they called our house phone hours after we were already on the road and on our way there, even though they also had our cell phone numbers.
We had two pets with us, so a hotel wasn't possible, plus we went to be in a secluded cabin, not small hotel rooms. We found a place to stay that night, but every cabin we tried to book so that we could continue our trip, was either unreachable or got booked right before we could book it. A lot of people were in the same boat we were and were scrambling to find a new cabin accommodation, as well.
We ended up leaving and coming back to Birmingham the next day. Our week was already bad, as any week where you buried a loved one is, so this just intensified that.
Posted on 5/24/17 at 11:19 am to DupontsCircle
Cant say i've had a bad one.
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