Author Topic: "Holiday Road" - The Official Vacation Thread (Read 228250 times)

mitlen · « **Reply #375 on:** June 18, 2015, 06:05:31 pm »

Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on June 18, 2015, 06:03:19 pm

Badlands national park in SD is quite stunning.

True .... I enjoyed the side roads and seeing buffalo. On a Sunday morning, I stopped at Wounded Knee. Saw "Wild Bill" Hickock's grave in Deadwood. Since I've been there though, Deadwood has legal gambling.

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #376 on:** June 18, 2015, 06:08:07 pm »

I drove across in an early January in my '68 Catalina...I was like the only car that made it through the stretch of I-90 that cuts through the Crow Reservation (where they apparently don't treat the roads). Can't beat rear-wheel drive 5000 pound Detroit tanks

Quote from: mitlen on June 18, 2015, 06:05:31 pm

True .... I enjoyed the side roads and seeing buffalo. On a Sunday morning, I stopped at Wounded Knee.

mitlen · « **Reply #377 on:** June 18, 2015, 06:08:54 pm »

Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on June 18, 2015, 06:08:07 pm

I drove across in an early January in my '68 Catalina...I was like the only car that made it through the stretch of I-90 that cuts through the Crow Reservation (where they apparently don't treat the roads). Can't beat rear-wheel drive 5000 pound Detroit tanks

You're a brave man. I made the trip in late summer.

blue911 · « **Reply #378 on:** June 18, 2015, 06:38:30 pm »

Go to Sturgis

mitlen · « **Reply #379 on:** June 18, 2015, 06:41:10 pm »

Quote from: blue911 on June 18, 2015, 06:38:30 pm

Go to Sturgis

Don't go from August 3-9. It's a waste of time.

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #380 on:** June 18, 2015, 07:00:03 pm »

Probably the loudest place on earth during that time.

Quote from: mitlen on June 18, 2015, 06:41:10 pm

Don't go from August 3-9. It's a waste of time.

tomterp · « **Reply #381 on:** June 18, 2015, 08:18:22 pm »

Quote from: HalfSmokes on June 17, 2015, 07:34:49 pm

Loving Avon on the outer banks, great beaches without any crush of people

We'll be nearby in Salvo in a few weeks. Avon is great too.

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #382 on:** June 18, 2015, 09:04:07 pm »

Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on June 18, 2015, 06:03:19 pm

Badlands national park in SD is quite stunning.

Second this

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #383 on:** June 18, 2015, 09:07:33 pm »

Is the Crazy Horse monument far enough along to be worth seeing? Also, how is Little Big Horn?

mitlen · « **Reply #384 on:** June 18, 2015, 09:29:56 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on June 18, 2015, 09:07:33 pm

Is the Crazy Horse monument far enough along to be worth seeing? Also, how is Little Big Horn?

I was at Crazy Horse in '88 and they gave away pieces of the mountain that had been blown out. Got it upstairs.

varoadking · « **Reply #385 on:** June 18, 2015, 10:47:32 pm »

Quote from: mitlen on June 18, 2015, 09:29:56 pm

I was at Crazy Horse in '88 and they gave away pieces of the mountain that had been blown out. Got it upstairs.

Fooled you...they trucked those in from the beach...

mitlen · « **Reply #386 on:** June 18, 2015, 10:48:44 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on June 18, 2015, 10:47:32 pm

Fooled you...they trucked those in from the beach...

Maybe when they were making Chambers Bay.

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #387 on:** June 18, 2015, 11:35:06 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on June 18, 2015, 09:07:33 pm

how is Little Big Horn?

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #388 on:** June 19, 2015, 08:29:54 am »

Quote from: Ali the Baseball Cat on June 18, 2015, 11:35:06 pm

I heard tickets for that battlefield can get very expensive on the resale market.

houston-nat · « **Reply #389 on:** August 03, 2015, 08:53:05 pm »

Eating poutine in Quebec City and Montreal until August 12. Bye everybody!

tomterp · « **Reply #390 on:** August 03, 2015, 09:52:03 pm »

Quote from: houston-nat on August 03, 2015, 08:53:05 pm

Eating poutine in Quebec City and Montreal until August 12. Bye everybody!

Poutine de homard!

Ali the Baseball Cat · « **Reply #391 on:** August 03, 2015, 10:09:16 pm »

I know it's hard to pack for cold when you live in Tejas, but the snows usually start around now up in the old country

Quote from: houston-nat on August 03, 2015, 08:53:05 pm

Eating poutine in Quebec City and Montreal until August 12. Bye everybody!

houston-nat · « **Reply #392 on:** August 03, 2015, 11:40:58 pm »

Quote from: tomterp on August 03, 2015, 09:52:03 pm

Poutine de homard!

We have orders to devour on sight.

skippy1999 · « **Reply #393 on:** August 04, 2015, 12:02:07 am »

Have a great trip, Houston!

varoadking · « **Reply #394 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:00:12 pm »

I booked our London hotel for a week in May, 2016 about 2 months ago. Glad I did. Not sure what may be going on in London then, but the rate just went up $500.00/night...

tomterp · « **Reply #395 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:04:12 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on September 01, 2015, 02:00:12 pm

I booked our London hotel for a week in May, 2016 about 2 months ago. Glad I did. Not sure what may be going on in London then, but the rate just went up $500.00/night...

Beware, they may find a way to weasel out of your reservation.

varoadking · « **Reply #396 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:12:02 pm »

Quote from: tomterp on September 01, 2015, 02:04:12 pm

Beware, they may find a way to weasel out of your reservation.

It's with Marriott...never had issues with them before, but then again, I've never had a room rate go up $500.00/night before either...

mitlen · « **Reply #397 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:22:15 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on September 01, 2015, 02:00:12 pm

I booked our London hotel for a week in May, 2016 about 2 months ago. Glad I did. Not sure what may be going on in London then, but the rate just went up $500.00/night...

NANF

varoadking · « **Reply #398 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:25:15 pm »

Quote from: mitlen on September 01, 2015, 02:22:15 pm

NANF

houston-nat · « **Reply #399 on:** September 01, 2015, 02:34:25 pm »

Quote from: varoadking on September 01, 2015, 02:25:15 pm

VARKAC