April 24, 2007

Since I am back at work from my last vacation of course all I can think about is the next one 🙂

One thing we have looked at is something that a good friend of mine did a few months ago. Her boyfriend works in Mexico, so he flew her and her kids down there and they all stayed in on of those Condo Hotels. They are actually pretty reasonable when you consider what you get. If you have the kind of money to spend it’s much better than a timeshare and are usually managed well when you aren’t staying in your suite.

I could see living in a few different condo hotels year round and just traveling to where ever the weather happened to be nicest at that time of year. Caribbean or Baja in the Winter, New York or Canada in the summer. The freedom would certainly be nice.

Most of the time I spend thinking and planning vacations in exotic places but once the kids are a bit older I would like to explore so other areas of the country as well. I have only been through the mid-west a few times, and that was usually on the way to the west coast, but there are some really beautiful places there. Branson Missouri is supposed to be the “Live Music Capital of the World” and that in itself is enough to get me thinking about going to check it out. The Ozarks are supposed to be really nice, and it would be kind of nice to spend some time during the summer in the mountains rather than sweltering at the beach someplace.

Two of the people that went to the blogmeet in Helen have their own yacht and ever since I talked to them about their trip to Belize last year I have been really interested in taking at least one vacation and just sailing somewhere in the Caribbean. I would be really cool to just ship the kids off to relatives one summer and take one of those yacht charters with the wife for a couple of weeks. Possibly in the next couple of years, but it probably won’t happen this year.