Plan Manic's Next Vacation

[Manic]

Mexico.

Oh, and remember it's totally safe to drink the water.

Liar!

Make a list of Dinsey characters. Go to Disney land and punch them in the face. Scratch them off the list as you go along (Children crying gives extra points)

I'll have to remember that next time I visit my family in LA.

Don't leave the country. Just go to a part of the US that you've wanted to visit, a city or region that looks cool.

What I would do.

Eh, why not. God knows this country is big enough.

On a side note, I'm thinking about visiting California in a couple of months and wouldn't mind a couple of suggestions kthnx

San Francisco, although the weather will be unbelievably cold.
Monterey Bay for the aquarium, awesome seafood, and the fact that the hotels and bars are on the same block.
Los Angeles to point and laugh at the plastic people. Don't wear bright red or blue.
Mount Shasta, which is just beautiful.

Isn't the dollar still strong in Czech Republic?

I don't think so, Tim.
[/Al Borland]

Manic, couple questions for you. What's your budget, how long are you looking to be away for (the full two weeks?), what kind of things do you like to do or have always wanted to do or interest you, and are you going alone? Might have some ideas for you depending on your answers.

jag

Not much more than $2,000.
Maybe a week, a week and a half away.
I like to drink, take photos, see musical performances, visit historical landmarks.
If I can't round up a friend or two, I'll likely be going alone.

Come to Liverpool. Home of the world famous Lambanana.

you know you want to.

Awfully tempting...

I hear that the indepedent nation of Georgia is nice this time of year.

That's assuming Georgia will still exist a few weeks from now.

 

[Pluto]

Go nowhere. Packing and traveling is WORK!

 

[Dark Victory]

I hear that the indepedent nation of Georgia is nice this time of year.

lol

 

[chamber-music]

Not much more than $2,000.
Maybe a week, a week and a half away.
I like to drink, take photos, see musical performances, visit historical landmarks.
If I can't round up a friend or two, I'll likely be going alone.

Awfully tempting...

I would suggest Prague in the Czech Republic from what you listed. Great history, great museums its pretty cheap and if you want visit spend other parts of europe its easy because their are trains going out to the rest of the contintent.

It is the sixth most-visited European city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague

Plus by eastern and central european standards their are probabley less racist in the country.

 

[moraldeficiency]

My suggestion:

Take a flight to cancun. Don't stay there cause it's for tourist *****es, but catch a bus to the ferry and take that to Isla de Mujeres. Stay there for a week. The hotels are cheap, the beaches are beautiful. Great nightclubs and food, and all the pot you can smoke on the cheap. After about a week, take the ferry back and jump on a bus to Tulum. The entire place is full of resorts made up of people from all other countries that came and just didn't want to go back. The beaches are amazing and some of the best food you'll ever have. Go to the ruins and dive (if you do) in the sinkholes during the day while sipping back the tequila all night long (bring bug protectant, the mosquitoes are bad but only during dusk). On your last two days, go back to cancun and do any shoping you have to do and check out a few clubs. If you go remember to exchange your money rather than pay US currency (which you can do just about everywhere) and you'll save about 7% on what you buy.

 

[jaguarr]

Not much more than $2,000.
Maybe a week, a week and a half away.
I like to drink, take photos, see musical performances, visit historical landmarks.
If I can't round up a friend or two, I'll likely be going alone.

My suggestion:

Take a flight to cancun. Don't stay there cause it's for tourist *****es, but catch a bus to the ferry and take that to Isla de Mujeres. Stay there for a week. The hotels are cheap, the beaches are beautiful. Great nightclubs and food, and all the pot you can smoke on the cheap. After about a week, take the ferry back and jump on a bus to Tulum. The entire place is full of resorts made up of people from all other countries that came and just didn't want to go back. The beaches are amazing and some of the best food you'll ever have. Go to the ruins and dive (if you do) in the sinkholes during the day while sipping back the tequila all night long (bring bug protectant, the mosquitoes are bad but only during dusk). On your last two days, go back to cancun and do any shoping you have to do and check out a few clubs. If you go remember to exchange your money rather than pay US currency (which you can do just about everywhere) and you'll save about 7% on what you buy.

moraldeficiency's suggestion is a good one. You could also do some deep sea fishing for barracuda on a charter, visit Chichen Itza and Xcaret and go on over to Cozumel which is also a lot of fun. Lot's of fun to be had in the Yucatan Peninsula. Cancun's actually pretty fun if you go to the right places and don't get caught in the touristy crap (I got married in Cancun, actually). Should be pretty affordable as far as trips go. I'd definitely recommend going with friends if you're going to head out of the country, though. Always good to travel abroad with someone who will watch your back.

If you want to stay stateside, Vegas might be a good option if you've never been. I can recommend plenty to see and do there as well as good places to stay.

jag

 

[bullets]

I say a backpacking hike through Sudan would be exciting and new.

 

[moraldeficiency]

You got married in cancun, jag? That's awesome. Did you go the beach route at sunset?

 

[jaguarr]

You got married in cancun, jag? That's awesome. Did you go the beach route at sunset?

Yeah. We originally wanted to get married in Tulum in a pretty rustic setting (like, no running water or electricity type of rustic). Then a whole lot more people than we thought decided they were going to join us and we needed more hotel capacity. So, then we decided to go to Cozumel, but then MORE people decided to join us and the extra half a day's travel to Cozumel was too much for a lot of them. So, we wound up in Cancun, even though we really didn't want to do it there. We did it in this beautiful garden between the two Marriott properties in the afternoon. There was a massive storm that hung about two miles off-shore the entire time. We went and did our pictures immediately after, including a ton of them on the beach that the storm played a beautiful backdrop for against that green-blue water. We have wedding pictures that look like they came out of one of those wedding magazines. Literally the moment we stepped under the gazebo for our wedding reception, though, the rain dumped and dumped hard. It was like it waited for us to do all that we had to do and then as soon as we were under the shelter, it let loose. The hotel staff accused me of being a shaman because those storms usually roll right in off the water without any hesitation, rather than hovering around for almost two hours before finally coming in. It was a very memorable wedding. It was the only way I could top getting engaged on top of the Empire State Building on the 4th of July just before the fireworks went off.

jag

 

[moraldeficiency]

You are some kind of sorcerer.

Where in Tulum were you going to do it? God I love that place. To anyone that hasn't been the only way I can describe it is: the blue color the ocean is when you dream about it? That's what the water looks like.

That's pretty awesome, the storm especially, nicely played. And the engagement sounds pretty special as well. Hey everyone look at jags soft exposed underbelly, he's really just a romantic that does pushups.

I did my engagement on the beach at sunset, found the ring in a clam (and that set up had me up at 3AM and scared ****less about losing it).

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Ibiza, now go!

Ibiza's the one mate, Ibiza Ibiza Ibiza.
ask Diddy.

I third that emotion!!!
Even that i live in Vegas with the chicks and the booze and the sin.Vegas ain't got nothing on Ibiza..... awwwwww I remember those few days of being sober with geat fondness!
go to Ibiza Bro!
your few remaining brain cells afterward will thank you!

 

[jaguarr]

You are some kind of sorcerer.

Where in Tulum were you going to do it? God I love that place. To anyone that hasn't been the only way I can describe it is: the blue color the ocean is when you dream about it? That's what the water looks like.

That's pretty awesome, the storm especially, nicely played. And the engagement sounds pretty special as well. Hey everyone look at jags soft exposed underbelly, he's really just a romantic that does pushups.

I did my engagement on the beach at sunset, found the ring in a clam (and that set up had me up at 3AM and scared ****less about losing it).

My wife had this villa in Tulum picked out, right on the beach. Would have been pretty amazing. We tried to find it while we were in Mexico to see what we were missing but never did, actually. LOL! I did do some barracuda deep sea fishing, visit the Tulum and Chichen Itza ruins and do the Xcaret thing (that was spectacular) while we were there. All of it was a blast.

Man, you've got big balls putting an engagement ring in a clamshell and then just leaving it on the beach. I'd be freaking out. I thought getting the engagement ring through security at the Empire State Building without my future wife seeing it or knowing I even had it (I even kept it in the ring box, which was friggin' METAL underneath the covering) was stressful enough, but what you did is stress defined! LOL!

jag

 

[moraldeficiency]

My wife had this villa in Tulum picked out, right on the beach. Would have been pretty amazing. We tried to find it while we were in Mexico to see what we were missing but never did, actually. LOL! I did do some barracuda deep sea fishing, visit the Tulum and Chichen Itza ruins and do the Xcaret thing (that was spectacular) while we were there. All of it was a blast.

Man, you've got big balls putting an engagement ring in a clamshell and then just leaving it on the beach. I'd be freaking out. I thought getting the engagement ring through security at the Empire State Building without my future wife seeing it or knowing I even had it (I even kept it in the ring box, which was friggin' METAL underneath the covering) was stressful enough, but what you did is stress defined! LOL!

jag

The villa thing would have been awesome, but it sounds like plan C worked out really well. I bet those pics are amazing.

Not on the beach, in the water. I do like to take my risks. We swam out to watch the sunrise and I dove down at the channel marker and scooped it up. The minute I found it I think I screamed **** yeah loud enough underwater to be heard.

 

[jaguarr]

The villa thing would have been awesome, but it sounds like plan C worked out really well. I bet those pics are amazing.

Oh, yeah. The pics are really amazing. The villa would have been nice, but with all the friends and family that came (which was really cool), it worked out being at the Cancun Casa Magna Marriott. My folks even surprised us with an upgrade to a suite on the day of our wedding, which was early in our trip so we got to enjoy that for quite awhile. My wife was getting her hair done for the weddingand didn't know about it, so when they surprised me at the pool with that I went and moved all of our stuff to the new room from the old one. My wife had forgotten her credit card to pay for her salon and called the front desk to be patched through to our room and they told her that I had checked out! LOL! She was freaking out, thinking I'd ditched her, but her dad managed to keep the surprise of the new room intact and assure her everything was alright while her cousin paid for her salon visit. Anyway, beautiful hotel and grounds with an awesome staff. They keep the time-share sharks off their property, too, which can be a problem in Cancun at other hotels (I've read and heard of encounters where people literally got into fist fights with the time-share a-holes at certain Cancun properties because they're so aggressive and obnoxious) and kept pretty tight security to keep people from harassing their guests. We had fun exploring the city, too. The outdoor market with all the handmade crafts and clothing and stuff was a hell of a lot of fun. I had fun bartering with the locals on some traditional jaguar chieftan masks and wood carvings.

Not on the beach, in the water. I do like to take my risks. We swam out to watch the sunrise and I dove down at the channel marker and scooped it up. The minute I found it I think I screamed **** yeah loud enough underwater to be heard.

LOL! In the water!? That's borderline insane, dude. Well played! I hope she said yes. Haha!

jag

 

[moraldeficiency]

that's a pretty damn funny story, glad she didn't overreact too much. Shopping is fun there, though I'll second you're earlier advice to anyone listening: don't go to a foreign country alone, have someone there to watch your back.

Yeah, well I'm a borderline psychotic so it fits my personality. Thanks, and yes she did agree (but only after I showed her the gun). (that's a joke I didn't threaten her into marring me, I drugged her, more romantic)

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Camp Crystal Lake. It's where all the cool kids go to during the summer.

 

[jaguarr]

that's a pretty damn funny story, glad she didn't overreact too much. Shopping is fun there, though I'll second you're earlier advice to anyone listening: don't go to a foreign country alone, have someone there to watch your back.

Yeah, well I'm a borderline psychotic so it fits my personality. Thanks, and yes she did agree (but only after I showed her the gun). (that's a joke I didn't threaten her into marring me, I drugged her, more romantic)

Hopping her up on sodium pentathol and asking her repeatedly if she'll marry you is more of a sport anyway.

jag

 

[moraldeficiency]

Damn straight! Where's my wheates box?

 

[chamber-music]

I third that emotion!!!
Even that i live in Vegas with the chicks and the booze and the sin.Vegas ain't got nothing on Ibiza..... awwwwww I remember those few days of being sober with geat fondness!
go to Ibiza Bro!
your few remaining brain cells afterward will thank you!

Is Ibiza popular with Americans because I didn't know the average american knows about us europeans crazy mediterranean party islands

 

[Matt Murdock]

Disneyland.
It makes Disney World look gawdy and tacky.

...Plus they have an Indiana Jones ride!














...Plus there are no lines!
























...I'm young at heart.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Is Ibiza popular with Americans because I didn't know the average american knows about us europeans crazy mediterranean party islands

well the more Americans who come back raving about how crazy it is. The more it's becoming well known Chamber.you lucky dog you.

I sent 6 years in Madrid, Spain in the Air force and went all over Europe while i was there. Ibiza. Malta and Majorca was just some of the spots i hit. But as far as partying my ass off and getting.... ahem quote "languages Lessons" from hot European women. Ibiza was by far the best!!
Hell i wanna go back.This might turn into plan BlackVulcan's Next vacation. HAHA!

 

[chamber-music]

well the more Americans who come back raving about how crazy it is. The more it's becoming well known Chamber.you lucky dog you.

I sent 6 years in Madrid, Spain in the Air force and went all over Europe while i was there. Ibiza. Malta and Majorca was just some of the spots i hit. But as far as partying my ass off and getting.... ahem quote "languages Lessons" from hot European women. Ibiza was by far the best!!
Hell i wanna go back.This might turn into plan BlackVulcan's Next vacation. HAHA!

Cool sound like Good times t:

 

[jaguarr]

Camp Crystal Lake. It's where all the cool kids go to during the summer.

*stabby stab stab!*

jag

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Cool sound like Good times t:

The Best!!!! That's why panic should forget that about just staying in the US and go see Lovely,delicious Ibiza!! hehe

....... oh and definitely stay away from Camp Crystal-Lake

 

[CashforStash]

Universal Studios FTW!!!!!