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Solo trip recommendations for next summer

Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:08 pm
Posted by Gee Grenouille
Member since Jul 2018
8536 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:08 pm
Son is off at college even in the summer. Wife and daughter are taking a trip the week of 4th of July. I think I might do something solo. I know I'll be fighting crowds due to summer, and 4th of July. I'll head over to the travel board for the details when i decide, but coming here for ideas. Budget $5,000 for Sunday, July 4th to Saturday. Could leave on the 2nd or 3rd if that makes things easier.

Current ideas
Drive the pacific coast highway, or some portion of it.
Fishing trip out west.
Pacific NW.

What would the boys of the OT do, given this opportunity?
Posted by jizzle6609
Houston
Member since Jul 2009
21269 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:12 pm to
Come down here and go hunt some gator and drive the Louisiana southern coast highway.
Posted by Btrtigerfan
Disgruntled employee
Member since Dec 2007
24195 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:13 pm to
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What would the boys of the OT do, given this opportunity?


Hookers and a bunch of cocaine.
Posted by DMagic
#ChowderPosse
Member since Aug 2010
50659 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:14 pm to
Go to the desert and have a peyote journey
Posted by RanchoLaPuerto
Jena
Member since Aug 2023
2482 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:16 pm to
Climb some fourteeners in Colorado.

Rocky Mountain High.
Posted by BoogaBear
Member since Jul 2013
7497 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:17 pm to
My wife and kids are gone?

Buy some amazing food, drink, and sit my arse at the house with the dog and live like a king.
Posted by Crow Pie
Neuro ICU - Tulane Med Center
Member since Feb 2010
27954 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:18 pm to
quote:

Pacific NW.
Get a cabin near Government Camp, Oregon and wander around the Mt Hood Wilderness and the surrounding area. It's perfect for what you want to do. You could do all three of the items you listed from there and go rafting too.
This post was edited on 8/25/26 at 4:20 pm
Posted by travelgamer
Member since Aug 2024
3087 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:19 pm to
Start at the Grand Canyon, there are so may natural parks and wonders around there you won't have enough time. Take a trip down to Hover Dam if if opens back up by then.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
11945 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:26 pm to
Cancun, Mexico
This post was edited on 8/25/26 at 4:28 pm
Posted by weagle1999
Member since May 2025
3782 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:27 pm to
Argentina
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
45572 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:28 pm to
Route 66.
Posted by DarkDrifter
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2011
5926 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:29 pm to
quote:

What would the boys of the OT do, given this opportunity?


Call the boys.. Find a couple of bucket list golf courses in the north(since its the middle of summer) and go play, eat steak, drink bourbon and have a good time...
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
78713 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:30 pm to
Santa Fe, NM
Posted by GoShoughYourself
Member since May 2026
153 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:30 pm to
Ayahuasca weekend with A-Rod in a sensory deprivation tent in Yellowstone
Posted by travelgamer
Member since Aug 2024
3087 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:30 pm to
quote:

Hookers and a bunch of cocaine.


Rummeltiger told me they police these posts.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
105244 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:31 pm to
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Hookers and a bunch of cocaine.


I hear there was a good guide for this in BR but he’s going away for a while.
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
10855 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:34 pm to
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Come down here and go hunt some gator


Not in July dude. Besides, I'd avoid the heat like the plague. I'd vote for a cooler climate up north. Section hike part of the AT or go to the Rockies. I think a float trip on the Buffalo River or something like that would be cool too. Though anywhere in the states you'll be fighting crowds like you said.

With a budget like that and a whole week, you could go out of country. Highest cost to Europe is plane trip, but not that bad solo. Relaxing on Lake Como and riding around the Alps by train would be a pretty stellar trip. Could also go to South America as it will be winter down there.
This post was edited on 8/25/26 at 4:38 pm
Posted by AlumneyeJ93
Member since Apr 2022
993 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:36 pm to
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Pacific NW.


My uncle was just up there, stayed at Crater Lake, Mt Hood highway, Columbia River Gorge, drove on Oregon Pacific coast highway, went over to Mt Saint Helens. Said scenery is beautiful.
Posted by tylerlsu2008
Monaco
Member since Jul 2015
1534 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:38 pm to
Iceland and Ireland maybe.

This also sounds like it could be a good time to do something like Alaska on your own.
Posted by BitBuster
Lafayette
Member since Dec 2017
1975 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 4:46 pm to
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Budget $5,000

Solo with that budget? The world is your oyster.

quote:

Current ideas
Drive the pacific coast highway, or some portion of it.
Fishing trip out west.
Pacific NW.

What would the boys of the OT do, given this opportunity?


Do something you've never convinced the wife to do, or wouldn't want to do with you. Fishing out west sounds like it'd fit the bill.
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