Monday Evening Thread – Vacation edition

Hello every one, I am on vacation in beautiful Door County Wisconsin if cherries and whitefish are your thing, you will be in heaven.  No heat wave here, although the locals did complain about it getting to 90F here last week.  Today is a nice cool 75 with a nice breeze off the lake and a wonderfully sunny day.  Fuck NC and Fuck Work.

We really do like it here and we have added this area to the retirement list, as my wife is finding she hates the heat more than the cold.  Although the real estate market is insane, thanks to all the Boomers retiring and moving up here.  I guess Florida is getting too hot even for them or maybe it is the hurricanes.  Whatever, they are harshing my buzz when I look at the real estate market here.  As a bonus, when civilization falls or the zombies arise, the only way into Door County (other than by boat) is by a single bridge – a drawbridge.  Plenty of orchards, fish, dairy and veggie farms.  Plus, Washington Island is only a ferry or boat ride away (actually in winter you can drive across the ice I think).  Defensible, sustainable with some occasional scavenging, and with access to Detroit, Chicago, and numerous homes via the lake.  Of course the ravenous hordes coming from Chicago (human and/or zombie) will be hard to keep out if They Are Billions has taught me anything.  I learn all my survival skills from video games, hence, I shall be one of the first to die.

Anyway, where do you like to go and/or do on vacation – I do not mean sight seeing travel – I mean where you can be with your family or friends, sleep in, read, relax, and just chill?  Any trip that involves a very specific itinerary or travel every other day, is not a vacation, that is a tour.  My Better 3/4 loves trips that involve exploring the area, hiking for the perfect view, shopping for that perfect gift, or reveling in the history.  She calls that a vacation, I call that exhausting.  I like a much, much more relaxed approach to a vacation, say a week at the beach where all food and drink are already in the house and we have to do nothing but cook it.  If the car did not move for 5 days, I would have no problem with that.  To me a vacation is sloth and gluttony combined into one glorious week of no one calling, emailing, or texting us from work or family drama shit.  Oh and the weed, definitely the weed.

So, tell all about your favorite vacations including any great stories!