MzSerena’s Garden

I would dearly love to be on vacation right now. I would take a trip to nearly anywhere as long as it didn’t involve flying. Give me a Branson vacation package and I’d go. The new country music capital? I’d love it. Go see the RFD-TV live shows? A blast.

I’m not a picky person, a trip to the next town over for an overnight getaway would even work, as long as it was somewhere other than here for a day. What about you? Where would you want to go?

If only money grew on trees.  If it did, I would be one happy girl.  That leads to the question.. What would you do if money grew on trees?

One thing that I’d like to do is set up my own home theater. Why? Because I love movies and would love to be able to watch them however they are meant to be watched.

Another thing that I’d like to do is set up a proper office with an L shaped desk.  One where I can have my computers under my desk, against a wall with a window to look out.  Everything I need at the tips of my fingers and not looking like a pile of papers exploded.

The other thing I’d like to do, if money grew on trees, is take a trip to see my neice and of course my in-laws.  I miss them, frankly.  Plus they live in Las Vegas and I miss it there, somewhat.

What I want and what I get are two different things. What do I want in this case? I want a vacation. I don’t know where I want to go on vacation, but I’ve definitely got a few ideas. I’m thinking a day cruise would be a lot of fun. I don’t want to go on a long trip, really, just a few days to relax and rest.

I’m tired, so damn tired that it’s not even funny. Escaping for a few hours just doesn’t do it for me. I thought that it would be enough, but it doesn’t help. I’m so stressed all the time that I need to just get away from it all for a while. I know we can’t take a vacation, really, but I’d love to just get away for a day or two. Perhaps when Rob takes his vacation, we can have some money saved up to go on a day trip. Maybe to Atlantic City.

Anywhere that isn’t here would be fantastic, really.

I’ve written before about escorted tours, so this isn’t really a new subject for me to talk about. What I am going to do, however, is give a bit more of an idea of why you would want to take your vacation this way. I can’t imagine going on vacation alone, honestly, to a city that I’ve never been to before. I can’t even imagine taking a vacation with my husband to a city neither of us know.

By taking an escorted tour, you can visit a city, either alone or with someone else who has never been there without feeling like a complete inept tourist. On an escorted tour, you are accompanied by a tour director, taking you to all the major sites, makes sure that you see what you need to see and they also make sure that you are completely taken care of during your stay.

Escorted Tour packages often include flights, hotels, transportation, transfers to and from the airport and hotel, most meals and sightseeing. The sightseeing tours are often conducted by a motor coach, rather than by foot and can be fast-pasted, but if you prefer something more leisurely there are packages available for that as well.

Everything that you want out of a vacation can be given to you with an escorted tour, everything you expect of a vacation can be given to you, as well, so that you can enjoy your vacation without ever having to worry about anything going wrong. Why take a traditional vacation where you don’t know if you will get the chance to see and do everything you want to do when you can take an escorted tour and be sure that you see everything that you want to see.

With all the insane amounts of icky, nasty white crap and rain falling out of the sky, I seriously think that it’s time to take a vacation somewhere warm. Ever since I saw How Stella Got Her Groove Back, I’ve wanted to go to one of those Jamaica all inclusive resort vacations. One of those trips where you don’t have to do anything but sit on a beach and enjoy myself.

I mean, really, seeing some of these great Caribbean weddings made me wonder what it would have been like to have my own wedding at some secluded vacation spot. I’ve dreamed about different romantic vacations in my life, but I know that it’ll be a long time from now before I get one.

I wouldn’t mind a vacation right now, no matter where it was to. I want a vacation from life, even if it’s just for a weekend. Some time where I don’t have to think about money, bills, groceries, holidays, family, and all that. I just want to get away and take some time for me. Ah well, a girl can dream, right?

With Winter setting in and it is getting more and more tempting to find somewhere warm to live. That’s why I start looking for homes for sale in hilton head. IslandGetaway has a great selection of hilton head real estate for sale, for anyone who is looking to get away from the cold, or even if you’re just looking for a vacation spot.

With the amount of real estate hilton head has available, it’s not difficult to find something that suits you and your family. Save yourself some headache and let IslandGetaway.com find you the home of your dreams. If you’re looking for a rental for a weekend or Winter vacation, they can help you with that too. No matter your needs, IslandGetaway.com can help you find it. Escape the winter blahs, take an escape from the cold and visit Hilton Head. Take a weekend, take a week, take the entire Winter if you can.

So in my never ending desire to go on a vacation, I was looking at different European cruises. Yet another pipe dream, but it’s fun to dream. I love to see the different things you can do, things that you can see.

Vacationing in Europe won’t work for me, I don’t have a passport and no intention to get one either. That means I’ll never be leaving the US and I’m okay with that. There are plenty of things that I can do here that most people forget about.

I keep looking at different trips that I could possibly take. I find all kinds of travel deals all over the place, yet I never see the ability to go. I wish I did, but what can I do? I don’t have the money to go on a vacation. I wish I did, I’d like to take a day trip even. I’d love to go to Atlantic City, and that’s just a few hours away. Even a day trip to New York City would be amazing.

Oh well, maybe next summer when Rob takes his vacation, we can afford to go on a trip for a couple days.

I think of all the trips I’ve taken, my favorite has to have been the extended vacation that I took to Las Vegas. Originally I was supposed to be there for two weeks, but I ended up there for 5 months. There are several fun Las Vegas tours that you can go on if you’re visiting the city and don’t want to gamble.

I went out to meet Rob and stayed. We were always doing something, on the go finding fun touristy things to do. It was fun to sit and people watch, more than anything, especially on the Strip itself. I like to people watch, you learn a lot about human nature that way. It’s definitely a fun city to visit. It’s not the only fun city to visit, though.

Another fun place to visit is the Top of the Rock in New York City. New York is the next city I want to visit, especially since it’s close to home. Everyone chides me for not having been there other than passing through on my way somewhere else.

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I seriously wish that I was heading South. I’d like to take a trip. The Orlando vacations are looking good, really, other than it being hurricane season. I don’t like storms at all, so storm season in the South wouldn’t be fun. I just need some sort of vacation, some time away from here, time to be free of responsibility.

Not going to happen, I know, but it’s nice to think about.

With vacation season winding down, it’s getting cheaper to travel. Why is this? Most places are trying to draw in last minute vacation goers with great deals to boost their numbers a bit to make it a good vacation season. This isn’t unusual, so that’s why you need to take advantage of the best deals you can find.

For instance, if you’re headed to Branson then you need to check out the packages that are offered and see if you can find one that fits your vacation needs. Packages offered by Branson Getaways start at $455 for a 3 Days/2 Night stay at Clarion, 2 adult tickets to Pierce Arrow and Mickey Gilley. You can go so far as to purchase a package for $782 for a 5 Days/4 Nights stay at Branson Settle Inn, 2 adult tickets to Magnificent Seven, Dixie Stampede and Shoji Tabuchi.

That’s not even the family packages. If you’re looking to take a family trip to Branson, you can pay $824 for a 4 Days/3 Nights stay at Presidential Condo, 2 adult & 2 kids tickets (ages 4 – 11 yrs) to Haygoods, Ride the Ducks and Hamner Barber Variety Show.

Those are just a few of the packages, you can find great deals for your vacation that suit your needs.

So every year when it comes time for Rob to have his vacation, I sit down and think about where we can go and what we can do. One of the things that came up this year was the idea of exploring New Jersey waterparks since it’s not that far of a drive to New Jersey.

The idea of a family beach vacation sounds like a lot of fun, since I rarely ever spend time out in the sun. I haven’t been to a beach before, so that would be different for me. I have been to a beach front lake, but that’s a totally different type of beach. It would be a great thing to take a real vacation away from my home town.

The idea of driving a few hours to New Jersey to explore beaches and waterparks sounds like a great idea. Summer is wrapping up, however, so perhaps it’s an idea for next years vacation plans. I know I’m going to do it one year, I just haven’t figured out what year it’s going to be, since money ends up being tight every year. Maybe if I plan early, I can get the money saved up by next June to take a small trip like that.

I’ve been doing a lot of writing and research for a few articles about Las Vegas. Now, most people who know me, knows that I lived there briefly back in 2000/2001. I miss living there, to be honest, and keep looking at these great Vegas vacations that I see advertised. I would love to go see my in laws, as strange as that sounds. I would love to go see how much has changed, since Las Vegas is the city of constant change.

I miss Las Vegas, but I don’t want to live there again.

In the season of travel, everyone has their plans of where they want to go and what they want to do on their vacation, but not many people think about what they should do before leaving on their vacation. For instance, how many people invest in travel insurance before heading out on vacation? I know that I never have. I never knew it existed, really. It’s a great concept, hopefully more people will take advantage of it in the future.

So I’ve been giving a lot of thought to travel and even moving, but one place that keeps coming back to the forefront is Las Vegas. I lived there for nearly a year with Rob before we moved back east and I loved it. I’ve thought several times about picking up some Las Vegas travel guides online and planning a trip back. I know he’d love to see his brother and I’d love to see our niece again. We didn’t get to see the family before they moved back to Las Vegas.

I wish it were in the cards, but it’s not. Oh well.

Sometime, long time down the road, I’d like to rent or buy one of those travel trailers and drive around to see my online friends. I think it would be absolutely amazing to just take off for a month and go see the people I’ve come to know and love online.

Pick up people here and there that we know and bring them with us, make a real adventure out of it. Doesn’t that sound like something fun to do before you die? I really do.

Are you taking a vacation to Branson? Take me with you! Kidding, but seriously, if you visit Branson, there are a lot of things that you can do, outside of the normal tourist-y things that there are to do. If you like to play golf, you can visit StoneBridge Village. This Branson private golf course has, not only a championship layout, but it’s absolutely beautiful to look at. What could be better than playing 18 holes surrounded by the beauty of the Ozark mountains.

Someone asked me one day what my ideal honeymoon would have been, had Rob and I taken one. I was really hard pressed to answer the question because I had never really given it much thought. I finally decided that, had I gone on a honeymoon, I would have chosen to take a cruise.

This got me to thinking and researching different cruises as a possible getaway sometime soon. We’ve been married going on 5 years now, we’ve not ever gotten away. In fact, he and I haven’t had any real chance to get away. When we moved back here, life became work. We go out, we do things together, but we’ve never taken a weekend to get away from everything.

In hopes of finding some leads on how to be able to take a cheap vacation, I saw that Coop Travel had just relaunched their website. Co-op Travel’s new website is a fantastic resource for people in the United Kingdom who want to plan cheap holidays without having to worry about not getting the best price.

They let you package your own holiday, including your hotel room. Want to take a cruise? You can set it up with Co-op Travel to go anywhere from two days to seven days. Want to take a ski trip? You can just pick your dates, ski resort and get yourself ready to ski. It couldn’t be any easier.

Co-op Travel is your one stop travel planning headquarters. No matter where you want to go, no matter how long you want to be gone, Co-op Travel can help you get there. Just take a few minutes to figure out where you want to go and pack your bags. Let them take the stress out of your next vacation.

If I had a penny for how many times I’ve thought about running away on vacation, I’d be a rich woman. But, I’m not rich, so I guess I’m out of luck, huh? I do want a vacation and I think it’s time to start seriously considering taking one. I kind of want to go visit Las Vegas again. Go see Chad and Heather and Anna. Maybe we can find a cheap flights and go visit over the summer or in the fall.

It would be nice to get away for a few days and he does have vacation time coming. Maybe we can do it… It would be nice, for sure.

One of the places that I breezed through when I was traveling from New York to Las Vegas was Branson, Missouri. We were on the outskirts of the city, but I’ve always wanted to go back and properly explore.

One of the reasons that I wanted to go there was because Branson is the new home to Country Music. Nashville will always be the major hub, but Branson is where a lot of the stars have chosen to make their new home. For instance, the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum is in Branson.

There’s also Silver Dollar City, where you can step back in time to see how people lived in the Ozark Mountains in the 1800′s. Learn what it was like to live a much simpler life and learn about history as well. But if that isn’t what you’re interested, there are plenty of museums, parks and shopping.

The main draw for me, though, is the music. Being able to see people like Buck Trent or Bill Medley or even Bobby Vinton is more appealing to me. For me, a lover of older country music, Branson is like paradise and I would love to spend a week there taking in the different shows.