Ok kids its time to start planning your fall romanitic trips. Get that time off, get the baby/cat sitter all squared away and start saving up your pennies.

We have been thinking of Sedona Arizona in November, possibly one week or two. We get the Leonid meteor shower, beautiful red rock hiking and the most amazing yellow sycamore leaves down near cathedral rock.

Some of the weekend trips we have planned are the foilage train in The UP of Michigan and Ash Cave in Columbus.

Fall is my favorite time of year (after the Dwarf Ragweed dies) and I just can't get through the year with out gallons and gallons of apple cider.

So anybody have any ideas or places that they would like to share?

I'd recommend a nice weekend trip to pick pumpkins with F&E topped by a stay at the Bates Motel and a case of the dry heaves on the road home

Actually, we enjoyed it so much last year, we're planning it again this year!

And if you don't like fall, come to New Zealand. It'll be spring here.

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Originally posted by Kiwi:
And if you don't like fall, come to New Zealand. It'll be spring here.

Now there is a great spring idea for me! I love the fall and I have always wanted to get a good look at the southern hemispheres constelations and freaky counter clockwise toilets!

So do you folks have lots of desciduous trees down there?

In general, native trees here tend to be evergreen, and exotics (of which there are plenty) tend to be deciduous. So there's plenty of pretty colour changes to be seen through autumn (fall).

I have no clue which way the water goes down the toilet. There is way too much turbulence happening though for the direction it goes down to be a result of anything other than design or chance. I know our bath drains clockwise.

In fact, I believe that in any draining body of water, the clockwise/counterclockwise thing is only true if you're talking about a perfect bowl surface and no disturbance (such as pulling out a plug to let it drain), and for the water to be perfectly still before any draining. When these conditions aren't met (i.e. every time) then the effect of which hemisphere you're in is so tiny, it's overruled by other factors.

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Originally posted by Heroic:
We have been thinking of Sedona Arizona in November, possibly one week or two.

Keep in mind that Sedona got hit by horrific fires just a month or so ago. Might put a damper on the scenery.

The Hub and I go up to the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. The Sawtooth Mountains have some amazing fall colors and the lake is always lovely.

I keep in contact with an astronomer in the Sedona area and he said all the fires were between Sedona and Flagstaff up near Slide Rock so they hit about 6 miles north of the area we hike. We were very relieved that our vacation spot was unharmed and that all the people we met were OK!

Trip? What's that?

My mom is going to be away for four months starting next Sunday, so our free babysitting will be gone. That, and CJ is still on the teat, so no overnighters for us anytime soon. Having said that, we're looking at finding a way to make it to AVN or Erotica LA next year - we're only about a 12 hour drive from F&E now.

I figure we'll go on a cruise once I'm done with college.

~Ang

School was $3,500 more than I expected so I am 12-15,000 behind my goal.

No vacation from me!

Let's see...I've been traveling every week, Mon-Fri, to San Diego for the past 1.5 months and through mid- to late-Sept...have several weddings to attend in the near future...my sister is having a baby any week now, so I have to save some vacation days to visit the new nephew...my mother wants to have a big party at her house for my dad's 60th birthday in October...nope, no "vacations" for me!

But then again, I have a bunch of wedding celebrations to attend, a new nephew to visit, and a father to surprise with a birthday visit. Not to mention bringing my guy down to San D for a weekend. That's not too shabby!

For me fall travel means the two and a half hour drive back to College Station to start my second year at University. Mummy and Daddy are helping me move into my apartment in a few weeks. No vacation for me until Christmas, when Mummy and Daddy are taking me to Disney World!

We love going to Bermuda. The early fall is still warm and the water is swimmable. We try to go every couple of years.

Beware, though, do not take your children. We took ours about 7 years ago, and now they won't let us go without them!!! Bummer!!!

Other than our fall trip to meet Buck and Topless in Vegas for the Lingerie Show, we are planning to hit Big Sur for a few days in early November, when there's practically no one there. It's so romantic, you can get great room rates, and the weather hasn't turned nasty - but is nice and chilly - perfect for snuggling.

In three weeks, we'll be making a pilgrimmage to Burning Man for the second year, this time with wifey in tow. Should be a trip to remember and I can't wait.

Freddy take plenty of water/gatorade, most people who get in trouble at burning man have hydration problems. In that kind of heat you won't even know your losing water till its way to late and you're on the ground with heatstroke. It happened to my outdoor mentor and he has years of outdoor experience. It hit him so hard he passed out, had he been alone he would have probably died.

Kelty has awsome hydration packs.

I know a guy who went to burning man and he had some problems with some folks who had indulged in far to many halucinigenic substances. So be carefull like any wild party it can get ugly quick.

I thought about going there but I saw the movie The Wicker Man and I know who would end up in that statue!

Be careful.