I am going to Yorkshire to visit my family tomorrow. I will stay in our beach cottage with my partner, and I have a few of my old university mates visiting me with their small families too! Going to be a lovely long weekender 
Destinations!
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Narz
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I'd like to goto NYC if I cannot afford it and can manage to get at least 4 days off. I haven't been in about two years now, miss it.
When you live in Florida almost anywhere else is a good destination in summer.
When you live in Florida almost anywhere else is a good destination in summer.
GenMarshall
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I take it you'd rather drive up to NYC than fly.
Narz
keeping it real
Only if I had at least 2-3 others to split the driving and gas. Long stretches of driving kill my back
It would be cool to visit friends up the east coast along the way but I also think driving would be too time consuming.
My ideal would be on a sleeper train but train travel in this country is too expensive and 20+ hours on a train or bus without a bed is basically torture.
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I would like to travel sometime next year. The list of options is long. I don't know where to go; I essentially have to pick which friend I want to see most. There are a couple of them which would let me see multiple people at once, too.
Is Scott's Cheap Flights still the best source of discounted tickets?
Is Scott's Cheap Flights still the best source of discounted tickets?
Amtrak has two classes of sleepers: bedrooms and roomettes. The Roomettes work well for one or two people. We have used them regularly from Albq to St. Louis and to LA. Both of those are overnight and very nice. They also include meals. Trains are a very easy way to travel if you are not in a hurry.
Silver Star: Miami to NYC leaves about noon and arrives NYC at about 7:00 PM the next day.
Random travel date selected:
Coach ~$162
Roomette ~$557 (lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner)
https://www.amtrak.com/onboard/onbo...eds/sleeper-car-accommodations/roomettes.html
If you cannot get into the rhythm, sit your butt down like the ladies.
Narz
keeping it real
Yeah I've looked at those but $550+ is alot to be spening 1-way when you can get a round trip flight for $150 or less (and 2.5 hours vs 20).
Hygro
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I am in Nicaragua right now, in a little townhouse on a rock overlooking two beaches. Population: 400 in town; 4000 in the area (4 square miles or 9 square km).
Last night no internet. A couple nights ago no water. Loving it here.
Last night no internet. A couple nights ago no water. Loving it here.
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I hope the overnight Amtrak trains have better food cars than the short routes, because the food available on the short routes is outright abysmal.
Dining car meals are much better than the food in the snack car. They offer entrée choices, salads, deserts. They are expensive for what you get but are included with roomettes. Unless you enjoy the pace of traveling by train, most folks will prefer planes.
I prefer Amtrak because you can just get on the train without the hassle of security and check in and all that and the scenery is nice but it’s not worth it to me to pay hundreds of dollars going really long distance if I can get a plane for less.
I’ve gone from New York to North Carolina many times and it was nice, it’s not an overnight journey.
I’d really like to travel around southern Iraq because I’ve only ever been to Kurdistan and the security situation is better now to where it’s doable. I’m really worried it’s going to get worse with the trouble they’re having with parliament and that there will be mass protests and things will get worse.
I was in Kurdistan last summer but I didn’t have time to go to the south and it’s too hot in the summer too, it was bad enough in Kurdistan.
I’ve gone from New York to North Carolina many times and it was nice, it’s not an overnight journey.
I’d really like to travel around southern Iraq because I’ve only ever been to Kurdistan and the security situation is better now to where it’s doable. I’m really worried it’s going to get worse with the trouble they’re having with parliament and that there will be mass protests and things will get worse.
I was in Kurdistan last summer but I didn’t have time to go to the south and it’s too hot in the summer too, it was bad enough in Kurdistan.
Has anyone any experience in enjoying what Mexico has to offer?
Apart from visiting family at Xmas haven't been further than Cardiff since Covid began. I've only been to Cardiff 3 or 4 times.
Mexico is great. Particularly liked Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Yucatan is interesting but very hot (be careful when in the year you go) and some parts like Chichen Itza are very commercialised.
Mexico is great. Particularly liked Chiapas and Oaxaca.
Yucatan is interesting but very hot (be careful when in the year you go) and some parts like Chichen Itza are very commercialised.
A lot depends upon which parts of Mexico you are thinking about: West coast beaches, Yucatan, Mexico City, Baja, etc.
warpus
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I have a minimal amount of experience w/ Tulum, but that's about it.
So much depends upon what kind of experience you are looking for. Places like Isla Mujeres and Cozumel will be less commercialized than the resort strewn Cancun to Tulum stretch. Mayan Ruins like Chichen Itza are big tourist attractions; lesser known ones like Coba, are less busy.
We are hoping to do the Day of the Dead Festival, see tons of ruins, and have a few days of cocktails on a beach preferably. I prefer to travel than to holiday.. if that makes sense.
How much time will you have?
Some starting places:
Mayan Ruins are spread about in the Yucatan and would require a car and driving between them.
Teotihuacan (Pyramid of the Sun+) is close to Mexico City
For the map:
https://amazingtemples.com/en/amazi...uatemala-en/peten-en/peten-guatemala-yucatan/
Tikal is one of the top Mayan ruins but it is in Guatemala and isolated.
If you went to the Ruins at Yaxchilan, you could see the handiwork of king Bird Jaguar IV
https://teotihuacanguide.com
Olmec civ
https://www.farhorizons.com/trips/americas/mexico-olmec-tour/
https://theculturetrip.com/north-am...y-the-day-of-the-dead-celebrations-in-mexico/
