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Post by Bella on Jun 6, 2006 21:42:50 GMT -5
We know travel has been a big part of Apolo's life, going to various competitions in the US and over seas and he has been traveling a lot this summer... does anyone have any travel plans for the summer they'd like to share? How about past trips you've taken? We'd love to hear about your experiences.
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Post by Ruffian of Old on Jun 6, 2006 21:46:32 GMT -5
I'm goin' to Vegas in a month or so!
It's gonna be schweet. Schweet I say.
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Post by sara on Jun 6, 2006 23:07:02 GMT -5
Travel is my another of my passions. I really haven't been doing too much this past year, but my best friend and I are starting to plan a big trip for next summer. One thing we might do is go to Australia and then cruise to New Zealand. The last place we went, other than New Orleans at the end of last June just before Katrina, was England. We went to a wedding at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, near Oxford in England. Best wedding I have been to in my life. After the wedding we spent a couple of days in London and saw a couple of shows in the West End, and then we went down to Bath, stopping at Stonehenge on the way. My web host is doing some upgrades, but when they are finished and I can publish some of my photos to the web, I'll be able to put a few pictures here. I also can share some of the other trips we have taken to other places.
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Post by Bella on Jun 7, 2006 10:27:42 GMT -5
I'm goin' to Vegas in a month or so! It's gonna be schweet. Schweet I say. Look out Vegas - Sin City has met it's match... |
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Post by Bella on Jun 7, 2006 10:28:11 GMT -5
Travel is my another of my passions. I really haven't been doing too much this past year, but my best friend and I are starting to plan a big trip for next summer. One thing we might do is go to Australia and then cruise to New Zealand. The last place we went, other than New Orleans at the end of last June just before Katrina, was England. We went to a wedding at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, near Oxford in England. Best wedding I have been to in my life. After the wedding we spent a couple of days in London and saw a couple of shows in the West End, and then we went down to Bath, stopping at Stonehenge on the way. My web host is doing some upgrades, but when they are finished and I can publish some of my photos to the web, I'll be able to put a few pictures here. I also can share some of the other trips we have taken to other places. Sara, that sounds really cool. I'll look forward to seeing the pics. |
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Post by MT on Jun 7, 2006 11:48:41 GMT -5
My favorite romantic city: Brugge, Belgium. All the romance history, architecture, and atmosphere of Venice (they have as many canals apparently) without all the tourists, plus better beer (one bar offers over 300 different brews) and French cuisine. Heaven
Favorite disserted beach: Pick a cove, any cove, Phuket, Thailand - unless a Tsunami is coming, then the undeveloped miles of beaches between Navarre Beach and Pensacola beach. Get naked, you'll have the place to yourself. My submittal for the tourist bureau ads: If a shark bites your arm off, we'll drag his sorry ass onto the shore, retrieve the thing and sew it back on. (No offense to the poor AL boy who inspired this, just major kudos to his uncle who had the kahunas to wrestle a shark bigger than he was.) BTW, Navarre Tourism office suggested I apply for a job at Corpus Christi, Texans might go for my brand of advertising more than woosey Floridians.
Favorite vacation destination to cuddle with your husband and make that little girl you've been wanting: Loch Lomond, Scotland. Hike all over castles and ruins during the day, skip the haggis for dinner and just drink the single malt, snuggle up under down comforters at night and do what the Scots do to keep warm. Voila, 9 months later, give or take, you'll have your own highland lassie. (Take the postman's packet boat and hop island to island but hold onto your hat, and definitely take a bus tour - do not drive - for the "whiskey trail" samplings of all the scotch breweries, also.)
Ruffian, are there Canadians in Vegas? Maybe they do a floor show with feathers, sequins and pasties?
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Post by Ruffian of Old on Jun 8, 2006 21:57:43 GMT -5
Bella, you give me too much credit!  But Sin City certainly has met an eager student. MT, I'm going to make a Canadian "Show Girl" graphic! |
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Post by Ruffian of Old on Jun 8, 2006 23:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by sara on Jun 8, 2006 23:31:56 GMT -5
Seattle...Apolo's Home  Seattle Skyline Space Needle |
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Post by Ruffian of Old on Jun 8, 2006 23:44:25 GMT -5
Sara are you going there? Because you had better bring back some Apolo Encounter stories! |
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Post by Elle on Jun 9, 2006 0:21:58 GMT -5
Don't they say its always raining in Seattle
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Post by MT on Jun 9, 2006 8:03:53 GMT -5
Flou in a pink boa is really working for me. He should try it on the ice. It would have the added benefit of covering up some of the skinsuit. |
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Post by laura6 on Jun 9, 2006 16:15:59 GMT -5
We are going to Yosemite National Park in July...after 18 yrs of struggling..our first ever vacation.
And we are going to yosemite next summer..
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Post by Ruffian of Old on Jun 9, 2006 18:29:33 GMT -5
Flou in a pink boa is really working for me. He should try it on the ice. It would have the added benefit of covering up some of the skinsuit. Just call him Carmine! Arrrrrriba! |
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Post by amyurban on Jun 9, 2006 19:34:09 GMT -5
One of the most amazing places I ever went to was Alaska for Christmas. I went to see some friends who were living outside of Anchorage at the time. He was working for a company who put in cell phone/communication towers in remote areas up there.
Went on a dogsledding ride at one of the outfitters up there who did that for the "tourists" to get them and their dogs in shape for the yearly Itidarod races up there. What a BLAST that was. I just wish I could of done it LONGER and for a farther distance. LOVED IT!
But Alaska, itself, is a trip. All the animals I saw while I was there: My first Moose ( God d**n, those things are HUGE and BIZARRE looking ), Dahl sheep on the cliffs of he moutains all over the place, more Bald eagles than I'd ever seen in my life, Killer whales and Narwhals ( the one's with the horn in the middle of their heads like a Unicorn, they are such a trip ) in one of the bay's there.
It really felt like Christmas that year due to being there, the snow and all. Plus, we went to go see Portage glacier. I never knew that glaciers glow a phosphorescent blue color. What a trip. It was like you put the glacier under one of them black lights after painting flourescent paint on it or something.
I'd love to go back there again some day and do Mt. McKinley, or as the Inuit like to call it, Denali.
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