Ot: staycation

[scaredyclassic]

No, just going to stay. Everythings here. There’s nowhere to go.

[UCGal]

[quote=walterwhite]Www.mjt.org

recommended without reservation.

Founder won a MacArthur genius grant for building this storefront museum hisself.[/quote]
If you like odd museums you should check out the Mutter museum in Philly. Truly cool (and gross, too!)

http://www.collphyphil.org/site/mutter_museum.html

But since you’re limiting yourself to SoCal going forward, I guess that won’t happen.

Thanks for the tip on the Jurassic Museum.

[sdrealtor]

The train ticket was actually cheap. It was about $200 for 1 adult and 2 kids (kids are 1/2 price and got a AAA discount). The expensive part was the sleeper car upgrade but worth it. That included a breakfast, 2 lunches and 2 dinners for each of us. There was also a wine and cheese tasting at 4pm each day. It left LA around 10 am and arrived in Seattle at 8 pm the next night. The sleeper runs about 200 to 250 per person. I got to take a shower on the train which was surprising spacious and enjoyable. The parlor car for sleeper car passengers was really nice with comfortable swivel club chairs. Perhaps my favorite part was dining (we took anywhere from an hour to two hours at each meal) and watching the world roll on by. Lunch on day one was spent riding up the Ventura coastline less than 50 yds from the water for most of the time. Younger kids would enjoy it also but it was perfect for my kids ages (8 and 12).

We got a great hotel downtown on Priceline for about $100/night with taxes and nonstop flight back to John Wayne on Alaska Air for $85. It wasn’t a cheap trip but I would and will do it again without thinking twice knowing what it costs.

Just go to the Amtrak website and you can find out all the details. They even have menus.

[paramount]

[quote=walterwhite]I did briefly go to the museum of Jurassic technology in l.a. Which may be the strangest museum in the us. I loved it.[/quote]

Ever been to the river scaredy? I just got back from Laughlin and I absolutely love it. I used to go twice a year, and I hope to return to that pattern – I’m on track to make it out there (3) times this year.

Lake Mohave is awesome and the Colorado River is as well.

[scaredyclassic]

it’s just that i paid a lot of money for this house, does it really make sense to flee from it when i take a break?

the thought of leavig it alone untended makes me nervous.

[scaredyclassic]

i love sleeper cars on trains. i traveled once overnight ona train not with the sleeper car ina misguided attempt to save cash and it was zero fun. with the sleeper car, it’s like the best nights sleep ever. its highly exotic, liek a zebrawood chessboard.

i also like eating a nd drinking on a train. and reading.

[paramount]

[quote=walterwhite]it’s just that i paid a lot of money for this house, does it really make sense to flee from it when i take a break?

the thought of leavig it alone untended makes me nervous.[/quote]

Yes, it does when your going here:

[img_assist|nid=16077|title=Lake Mohave|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=899|height=600]

And I do share your concern about security, but you do live in Temecula, right?

[scaredyclassic]

wherever you go, there you are.

it doesn’t really matter where i am.

it’s always the same thing more or less.

if I leave, the place could burn down. certainly weeds will grow.

[scaredyclassic]

also, now,i hate to leave my squat rack.

[paramount]

[quote=walterwhite] certainly weeds will grow.[/quote]

Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. “Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you shall eat the plants of the field.

Of course the weeds will grow, the Bible tells us so.

[temeculaguy]

[quote=outtamojo][quote=walterwhite]On my next vacation I’m going to stay home again. In fact I’m not going anywhere but Los Angeles, San Diego or palm springs ever again if I can avoid it[/quote]

Is there a nice place in Palm Springs with a resort style salt water pool?[/quote]

It’s not salt water, but the renaissance esmerelda will fit the bill. San Beach for the kids to make castles, bar in the center of four pools and in summer they often put up a giant movie screen like adrive in that you can float on rafts from the pool and watch. Summer rates are good (spring is pricey), but it’s one of those places you can bring the kids and yet it doesnt feel like caddy day at bushwood country club.

If you do not have a family, the talent level is better at some of the other resorts as every woman in so cal who was augmented this winter usually gets her money’s worth in the next few weeks out in Palm Springs because it’s the first place to wear that bathing suit she’s wanted to wear for the last ten years. My buddies call it implants on parade. For that, avoid the condo places or any place with a waterslide, the hyatt next to the esmerelda has an adults only pool with cabanas for rent, the jw marriott is always loaded but has weaker pools. I could go on forever, but my choice is the Renaissance because any place that brings you drinks to your chair is my kinda place.

http://www.google.com/search?q=renaissance+esmeralda+pool&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=yHc&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=wtiHT5wU0cyJAv6uyZML&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CCcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1067&bih=488

[scaredyclassic]

we do occasionally eat some of the mustard greens and dandelions that grow in the field.

[scaredyclassic]

i wouldlike to eat exclusively of the citrus, mustard green dandelion here. and maybe the occasionally goat

[The-Shoveler]

[quote=walterwhite]i wouldlike to eat exclusively of the citrus, mustard green dandelion here. and maybe the occasionally goat[/quote]

Thinking about gophers and squirrels along with whatever else it is we have growing diet myself, just need to get a lot better at catching the little beasts.
I am positive we could stay well fed on that diet around here.
But seriously I do like to walk along the beach about once a week, that’s one of nicer things about living in this area.

[paramount]

[quote=walterwhite]also, now,i hate to leave my squat rack.[/quote]

Based on your alternate ego, walterwhite aka scaredy, maybe you’re agoraphobic.

It’s understandable at times, even I’m slightly agoraphobic depending on where I am.

I mean if your hiking in the middle of the Marble Mountains or the Trinity Alps it’s not like help is right around the corner.

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