Did I ever tell you that I won a pair of plane tickets? I can't remember and I'm too lazy to do an archive search. Yeah, I entered this "win a vacation" type deal online back in June or so thinking that it'd be an instant win/instant notification situation. It turned out to be a drawing done a couple months later.
Anyway, I won. I didn't win the grand prize (airfare PLUS accomodations for 4 select locations), but I was a "first prize winner" and won a pair of tickets to anywhere in the 48 contiguous states. (No Hawaii, damnit!) We have to use them by July.
We've discussed going to Vegas, which seems like a place where the only way you'd get bored is if you just happen to be a boring person, but I'm having second thoughts. I don't have strong feelings about visiting anywhere else, either, but I want to go somewhere I haven't been before. Nothing is really exciting me right now, especially not the idea of being on a plane that many hours.
Anybody have any other suggestions? I don't want to go somewhere where the hotel cost will throttle us towards bankruptcy, but want to leave feeling like "I wish we could have stayed a few more days." Whether you think you know me well enough to give an opinion on what I'd enjoy, just shoot it out there. I'll state what my comfort zone is just as soon as I figure out what it is myself.
Posted by Tiffany at December 9, 2006 11:00 AM | TrackBackSeattle. You can do city stuff. You can do outdoorsy stuff. You can go not too far outside of the city to get away from it all. You will eat well.
Nobody ever thinks of this, but Minneapolis in good weather is quite nice, too, and certainly cheaper than a lot of places. Lots of arty/theater stuff. Plenty of nice scenery.
I also liked Santa Fe, NM. Definitely different looking. Got that southwest desert thing going, but you're at elevation, so it's a little different and nice and cool at night. Good for a "relaxing" vacation. If you're into the local artisan thing, Santa Fe has plenty of that.
Posted by: Erica at December 10, 2006 02:31 PM