I am a planner. I can't help it. Because Kevin has to squeeze out every day of vacation strategically, we take this time of year to chart our travels. Without the dog, I anticipate we'll explore some weekend places that weren't as dog friendly. We also have a few big trips on the horizon. Here's what we know so far:
1. Cat Island (late January). One of Bahamas Out Islands, Cat island has a small population (less than 2,000 according to Wikipedia) and yet is 150 square miles so the sparsely population paradise is a beach lover's dream. We traveled to Eleuthera another Out Island a few years ago and basically loved every moment. We're renting this beach house and plan to hike, kayak, read, cook and do a lot of chilling.
2. Weddings (April and June). We have two of them in 2012. One in Austin, Texas in late April and one in Raleigh, North Carolina in mid June. We plan on bookending the weddings with a few days to explore both locations and take a beach trip with the family after the North Carolina nuptials.
3. Anniversary (early June). This year the Traveling DINKs celebrate TEN YEARS of wedded bliss. This is crazy stuff, people. And to celebrate this big event (June 1), we will treat ourselves to a meal at the Inn at Little Washington. We plan on staying nearby at The Blue Rock Inn and visiting a few vineyards, taking a few proper hikes. Early June is really one of the few windows of time that is nice in the Washington, DC region so it didn't make sense to travel somewhere too exotic and miss the fine weather. (Now I have probably jinxed it and it will rain the whole anniversary weekend.)
4. Boston-Hartford-Providence (late June). June is going to be jam-packed for us in 2012. I have a meeting in Boston so we are making a long weekend of it and visiting a relative in Hartford and then swinging over to Providence, Rhode Island for a few days.
5. Lyon and other locations in France/Switzerland TBD (late August). A meeting takes us to Lyon, France in late August, but we have yet to fully construct a trip around the event. We are either going to fly into Geneva or Paris and then take some time to visit either Dijon, Loire Valley, or Provence. Stay tuned. This is going to be an amazing trip!
6. San Francisco and the Big Sur (early November). Another meeting takes us to San Francisco so we plan on wrapping in some time to visit Hearst Castle and probably as far south as San Luis Obispo. This trip is still so far out that we have not firmed much of it up just yet.
7. Weekend Jaunts (throughout 2012). We know we definitely want to visit Richmond (yeah, honestly we've never really explored this city just two hours away), the Northern Neck and probably a beach or bay trip. A lot of these trips will be more last-minute variety (again the luxury of being dog-free for the moment) and be based on the weather conditions.
8. Ohio (summer of fall 2012). I am sure we will find ourselves back in the home state to visit family, friends and maybe take in an Ohio State game.
I'm sure more travel plans will pop up, but it looks to be a full and fun travel year!
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| One of the many gorgeous beaches of Cat Island. |
2. Weddings (April and June). We have two of them in 2012. One in Austin, Texas in late April and one in Raleigh, North Carolina in mid June. We plan on bookending the weddings with a few days to explore both locations and take a beach trip with the family after the North Carolina nuptials.
3. Anniversary (early June). This year the Traveling DINKs celebrate TEN YEARS of wedded bliss. This is crazy stuff, people. And to celebrate this big event (June 1), we will treat ourselves to a meal at the Inn at Little Washington. We plan on staying nearby at The Blue Rock Inn and visiting a few vineyards, taking a few proper hikes. Early June is really one of the few windows of time that is nice in the Washington, DC region so it didn't make sense to travel somewhere too exotic and miss the fine weather. (Now I have probably jinxed it and it will rain the whole anniversary weekend.)
4. Boston-Hartford-Providence (late June). June is going to be jam-packed for us in 2012. I have a meeting in Boston so we are making a long weekend of it and visiting a relative in Hartford and then swinging over to Providence, Rhode Island for a few days.
5. Lyon and other locations in France/Switzerland TBD (late August). A meeting takes us to Lyon, France in late August, but we have yet to fully construct a trip around the event. We are either going to fly into Geneva or Paris and then take some time to visit either Dijon, Loire Valley, or Provence. Stay tuned. This is going to be an amazing trip!
6. San Francisco and the Big Sur (early November). Another meeting takes us to San Francisco so we plan on wrapping in some time to visit Hearst Castle and probably as far south as San Luis Obispo. This trip is still so far out that we have not firmed much of it up just yet.
7. Weekend Jaunts (throughout 2012). We know we definitely want to visit Richmond (yeah, honestly we've never really explored this city just two hours away), the Northern Neck and probably a beach or bay trip. A lot of these trips will be more last-minute variety (again the luxury of being dog-free for the moment) and be based on the weather conditions.
8. Ohio (summer of fall 2012). I am sure we will find ourselves back in the home state to visit family, friends and maybe take in an Ohio State game.
I'm sure more travel plans will pop up, but it looks to be a full and fun travel year!
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