Live where you want and you never have to go on a "vacation"?

[pinkytoe]

Maybe it's just me, but traveling these days is often more hassle and expense that it's worth. Crowds, lines, fees, rudeness ...That is one of the reasons we are moving west - so that we are closer to mountains, rivers, and even other states yet to discover. Living in Texas all this time, we miss out on summer year after year and that makes no sense to me. I can't grow much of anything past May. Too hot to do much of anything unless it's near water or inside for a minimum of 4-5 months. I so look forward to finding our little spot and venturing out when and if we feel like it.

[JaneV2.0]

That's the way I feel. I'd enjoy visiting distant places if it weren't for the travel part of traveling. (Or travail, more to the point.) Dammit--I was born too early for teleportation!

[nswef]

I'm with you Jane. My dream is to be able to wiggle my nose and BE THERE! My "driver' AKA husband still enjoys road trips so we can get many places that we want to go...but a plane, a true nuisance and the place needs to be worth the hassle.

[Mary B.]

Wow! And you can almost see my house from there!

[catherine]

I'm with you Jane. My dream is to be able to wiggle my nose and BE THERE! My "driver' AKA husband still enjoys road trips so we can get many places that we want to go...but a plane, a true nuisance and the place needs to be worth the hassle.

I disagree! I love the journey. I love road trips, I love plane trips, I love train rides, bus rides, you name it. Sometimes I get off the plane from a business trip and instead of making a right out of the parking lot at Newark and feel like taking a left and driving upstate just to relax. I wonder why?

I also love the destination.. as much as I hated losing my childhood's family cottage, when I fantasize about being able to buy it again, I really wouldn't want to, because then I lose the freedom of trying new destinations.

[ctg492]

Everywhere ( except 2) I have lived was perfect at that given moment in time. The 2 places there was too much other stuff going on my life to enjoy my space in life. We have tried returning to past places and it for us is never possible. Where we are at today is not perfect, but after 29 moves we became older and wiser and realized maybe that it is what we make of it. We returned last weekend to drive by a fond memory of our cottage up North after a few years gone. Oh it was sad and unkept, memories were best left in their place. We realized we never wanted to return there.

I Love my Lower Michigan, I love the 4 seasons, Not usually too hot, snow is not that bad, spring brings greens, summer brings sun, fall brings the smell of fall which I love so. Wizard Of Oz has always been my fav movie for many reasons. There's No Place Like Home, is probably why.

[Selah]

We live in Las Vegas and absolutely love it. It's a huge city made up of lots of little neighborhoods, so you don't really have to venture out of your little territory if you don't want to. But if you do, there are loads of places to explore and things to do. There are also lots of day trips available. For us, it's the best place for "staycations" in the world, since the casinos are always sending us comps to stay at world-class resorts for little to no money. I still like short getaways, and to get out in the desert and the small towns, though.

[rosarugosa]

Everywhere ( except 2) I have lived was perfect at that given moment in time. The 2 places there was too much other stuff going on my life to enjoy my space in life. We have tried returning to past places and it for us is never possible. Where we are at today is not perfect, but after 29 moves we became older and wiser and realized maybe that it is what we make of it. We returned last weekend to drive by a fond memory of our cottage up North after a few years gone. Oh it was sad and unkept, memories were best left in their place. We realized we never wanted to return there.

I Love my Lower Michigan, I love the 4 seasons, Not usually too hot, snow is not that bad, spring brings greens, summer brings sun, fall brings the smell of fall which I love so. Wizard Of Oz has always been my fav movie for many reasons. There's No Place Like Home, is probably why.

That's an interesting perspective to me, since I live 1.5 miles away from the house I grew up in with the boy who lived the next street over. So we never really went very far from home and have lived in our house now for 31 years! I love New England and it sounds like it shares many of the attributes of Lower Michigan

[ctg492]

Wow that is a great story rosarugosa!

[iris lilies]

I'm with you Jane. My dream is to be able to wiggle my nose and BE THERE! My "driver' AKA husband still enjoys road trips so we can get many places that we want to go...but a plane, a true nuisance and the place needs to be worth the hassle.

I am with you two! I would LOVE beng transported immediately to a new place, holding a small bag and backpack.Once my feet hit the pavement in a foreign city, I would be happy.

I cannot understsnd how some people seem to focus on the "getting there." One thng I liked about DH when I met him was all the traveling he had done. Yet, when his family sat around and talked about some of the vacations, they seemed to focus on the driving. There was one particular story I heard over and over about driving through Georgia on the way to Florida. There was never discussion on what they did when they arrived in Florida, it was the Georgia part that consumed their interest.