Summer 2003 vacation thread

[slsmcgrew]

First trip is to San Antonio Texas in late June

Second trip in July is to Hawaii to attend my son's wedding (It will be my virgin trip to Hawaii so I'm really looking forward to it)

Third trip is in the middle of August for a week on the Oregon coast.

[Ed S]

weizen and J Larsen. I'm kind of just speculating and hoping for the best, figuring that a last minute booking might work out if some airline wants to fill some seats. I've never used this approach before so I'm not counting on anything.

[mr jazz]

we've been doing a lot home renovations as I can see no better way to invest our money these days coupled with my uncertain work schedule (I'm an IT contractor and its been pretty rough for the past year or so) has limited our travel but a getaway to the blue ridge of Virginia over the 4th and a week somewhere-beach or mountains-over Labor day with a few weekends away is about it for the summer. no complaints as we've had some great trips over the years and I'm happy to be alive and well (and listening to Erroll Garner as I type this).

[Rooster_Ties]

I've only got one thing planned so far:  The Iowa City Jazz Festival.  I've never been to a jazz concert, so I'm pretty excited.  Andrew Hill, one of my favorite jazz artists, will be playing on the last day of the festival.  My wife will be out of town that weekend, so I'll be going solo.  Should be fun!

Holy Shit!!!

I had no idea Andrew Hill was going to be playing anywhere that close to Kansas City!!! (Where I live.) Iowa City is only like a 4-5 hour drive from here.

Damn, my parents are going to be in Kansas City that same weekend, but maybe I can sneak away for one day, since the concert is on Sunday. My folks are retired, so maybe I can get them to come early in the week, before the 4th of July.

Man, I would give my right arm to hear Andrew Hill.......

(And the concert is free too!!!)

[J Larsen]

weizen and J Larsen. I'm kind of just speculating and hoping for the best, figuring that a last minute booking might work out if some airline wants to fill some seats. I've never used this approach before so I'm not counting on anything.

Good luck to you. I'm going to be trying the same thing. $700 per seat is too rich for me at this point.

[JohnS]

Aggie

Glad there's a cd store in Bruges, I hope we will time to find it, though my wife usually does her best to steer me away from them. We had a short stay in Brussels last November. Record shops were pretty thin on the ground there, but then I was probably looking in the wrong place.

John

[Kari S]

Everybody, come to Finland to enjoy the land of the midnight sun! Breathtaking and exotic landscapes with pure and untouched forests and lakes. And if you time your visit on July, you can hear some jazz as well. At the Pori Jazz Festival 2003 (12th - 20th July) performers this year include: Wayne Shorter Quartet, Curtis Fuller Sextet, Ibrahim Ferrer, Los Hombres Calientes, Regina Carter and James Brown, among many others.

[A Lark Ascending]

I'm off to Italy for the second year running.

Hoping to base myself at Siena at the time of the Siena Jazz Festival and indulge in the joys of Tuscany.

[catesta]

Anybody going anywhere exciting this weekend?

[Chuck Nessa]

I leave in the morning for a week long visit to our parents in Iowa. I'm just going to have to leave the 105 cartons of new Uptown Allen Eager and Charlie Rouse/Red Rodney cds on my floor 'til I get back.

[J.A.W.]

Anyone watching your house?

[BeBop]

In August, I'm heading off to Indiana. Wait, make that India. Bangladesh and Bhutan too. And Korea. Thailand and Burma (no Shave).

Late September, back to Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti.

Trying like heck to burn up some of the 2 million frequent flier miles I have with a certain Chapter 11 airline.

[catesta]

Anyone watching your house?

Hans, do you know how to use any of this stuff?

[danasgoodstuff]

Going to beautiful Saskatoon (no, really) late June so Frances Belle Scott ("Little Bit") age 17mo can see her grandparents. I usually enjoy driving and being there but it may be kind of a long trip this time. She's never been there or on any long trip before. May get to hear some good music there (again, no really) since long time friends are apparently living and playing there again. Lon live the Lee Kovak/Bill Richards Quartet! Lots of sunshine at roughly 52 degrees north that time of year!

[J.A.W.]

Anyone watching your house? 

Hans, do you know how to use any of this stuff?

Never seen it before...

[paul secor]

I may make an unscheduled drive out to Whitehall, Mi. this weekend.

Later in the summer, we're just taking a couple of short vacations - a week in the Berkshires and later on a few days at the Connecticut shore in Madison. We did a lot of flying a couple of summers ago and I was totally burned out when we returned - no more of that until I retire.

Edited May 24, 2003 by paul secor

[Daniel A]

I will spend all of June and July at my parents summer house (which they won't use much until August), working on my final thesis. I'll be totally off-line, with just an ancient laptop, some litterature and a pile of CDs at hand. My girlfriend, who has one semester left of her medical studies, will work as a doctor at a nearby hospital, earning enough money to feed us, allthough I think I'm supposed to do the cooking!

[sheldonm]

I'm going to Maine for 10 days to do a little sea kayaking and camping. I been there a few time before, very relaxing!

[brownie]

Just back from a three-week holidays in beautiful Spain. Travelled by car

all the way down to Andalusia. Every day was better than the previous one.

Those were my winter holidays. Now I am waiting for the summer (five-week)

holidays next September.

France being a backward country has managed to survive on

long holidays, short (35-hour) work weeks, crippling strikes, staying out of the

Iraqi War.

It's back to work now...