Stay-cation

Arlo · June 11th, 2008, 06:37 PM

Any one else planning on a Stay-cation this year?

We usually go overseas but I think we will stay right here in Maine this year.

Bar Harbor - 2 nights
Southwest Harbor - 2 nights
Camden - 1 night
Pemaquid Point - 1 night
Boothbay Harbor - 2 nights
Portland - 1 night

Looking forward to this one too.

e-merlin · June 11th, 2008, 06:50 PM

I've been on a staycation since I got rear-ended by a truck. It's been almost a year now. I'm lookin' to end it, though. Got some job applications out now.

Our last few "vacations" have been home games.

tiktok · June 11th, 2008, 07:04 PM

I already had two on the books from the end of last year, so I'm committed at this point. And there's out-of-state festival gigs in August and September--who knows how much those will cost by the time they roll around.

I am forgoing travel for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year though.

woodman · June 11th, 2008, 07:08 PM

when i was working full-time, i took a lot of stay-cation time -- just hanging out at the house doing stuff i'd been wanting to do for months! now that i'm retarded, uh, i mean retired, it's like being on stay-cation all the time.

Wally · June 11th, 2008, 07:20 PM

spend your money where your heart...and butt..is....that's my motto.
Arlo,...location: down by the river in a van?...so, is that how you afford those overseas trips? lol.... somehow, I just knew it wasn't true!
I just spent two nights and 3 days in Austin. I saw Redd Saturday afternoon, and got my lesson in guitar humility. I tried to learn a little bit about playing, too...but his hands don't reveal much! Must get closer...
Money flies out of the hand these days. I could have had a flight to Hawaii and 5 nights paid for with what I spent down there. OF course, I would have had to have left the wife at home! LOL... That would have led to HUGE expenses upon my return, right?

AS the judge said to Ray...."I think it's cheaper to keep her!" Whoopee!

mellecaster · June 11th, 2008, 07:50 PM

I've been on a Stay-Cation fer quite a spell.......

Dan R · June 11th, 2008, 08:00 PM

I finally moved to the city where I want to live, so everyday is like a vacation for me. I was a habitual tourist that decided to move here. I like to travel, but it's not in the cards this year.

Dan R

woodman · June 11th, 2008, 08:03 PM

dang, Dan, you dun moved! i knew it was in your plans, but didn't realize you'd done the deed. how ya like it?

stevieboy · June 11th, 2008, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arlo

Bar Harbor - 2 nights
Southwest Harbor - 2 nights
Camden - 1 night
Pemaquid Point - 1 night
Boothbay Harbor - 2 nights
Portland - 1 night

Looking forward to this one too.

Some people have to drive all the up from New York City for that vacation!

Maybe you aren't going very far, but it doesn't sound like you're "staying" anywhere too long.

My Dad grew up in Portland and we used to go to visit thereabouts--always loved it, too.

Daddydex · June 11th, 2008, 08:09 PM

I think all the shore points will be buzzing this year. We might take a run up the eastern seaboard but I doubt we will make it past Boston. If gas prices were lower we may have planned to go a good bit further.

Dan

woodman · June 11th, 2008, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daddydex

If gas prices were lower we may have planned to go a good bit further.
Dan

i think you speak for many on this. everybody i know is cutting back on trips unless you can make it home overnight. besides gas, rooms will eat you up nowadays. consequently, everybody's sticking closer to home, so the competition locally for even crappy gigs is intense.

but i digress! i'm gonna take a stay-cation here in the Woodshed trying to learn PowerTools.

mudbean · June 11th, 2008, 08:59 PM

Oh, man, Jim Campilongo is playing up in SF over my birthday weekend and I REALLY wanna go, but I doubt we can afford to make the trip.

mud

markothefish · June 11th, 2008, 09:25 PM

We'll be staying next week for 9 days at a beach house on Minot Beach in Scituate Mass. My wifes aunt couldn't rent it that week and she will let us stay there. But no long driving trips this year ...

Ricky D. · June 11th, 2008, 09:45 PM

Just spent a week in South Nags Head. Once we got there, didn't turn a wheel. Two minute walk down the beach to Charlie Oliver's pier, as pleasant a place to spend a day fishing as I could want.

Tim Armstrong · June 11th, 2008, 10:02 PM

I live in a beach resort town, and we gig on Saturdays, so getting away for a vacation can be difficult. Last summer, I did make it out to Colorado for a friend's wedding, and spent ten days (the whole band took that one weekend off).

By choice, we're not gigging quite as much this summer as we have in years past, we'll average two gigs a week (it's been as much as five, a few years ago!). Playing that much, while great for the wallet and the chops, meant that by September we were all utterly spent! Won't be that bad, this year, instead I'll be utterly broke.

I ought to be able to get some bus driving work, so it won't be THAT bad.

One thing I'm hoping to do is to take some of those mid-week days and go camping up in the Appalachians. I really need to get away from the beach (and the flat, chicken-farm-filled interior of the Delmarva Peninsula!)...

Cheers, Tim

BlueMidnight · June 11th, 2008, 10:12 PM

We go to a Sonoma State beach every Fathers Day and camp on the beach for four days. This will be are fifth or sixth year. It's only three hours away towing a trailer, so I guess it's a semi-stay-cation.

tazzboy · June 11th, 2008, 10:13 PM

The place my folks and I are going to is at the Space museum in McMinnville, Or to see Howard Hughes Spruce Goose.

Rizo · June 11th, 2008, 10:17 PM

I thought I was going on a permanent vacation (see related thread) but it looks like I made the cut. Or didn't make the cut? Whatever, I'm still employed...

I had two weeks off though, and I'm about bored out of my mind. Oh well, back to work Monday. I might take two more at the end of the summer, but we'll see... definitely not going anywhere as I'm trying to move into a cheaper place and need some cash for that.

Nick JD · June 12th, 2008, 01:00 AM

Stay-cation? Hell yeah! This is the view out my kitchen window. Banana farm in the mist. Winter 2008.

The local water supply dam is under that cloud - water's warmer than the air this time of year at night so it's foggy up that valley.

See the squiggly line just under the "Gold Coast" - that's where these photos are at.

Paul in Colorado · June 12th, 2008, 02:43 AM

In the latest issue of Ready Made Magazine they list ten suggestions for a Stay-cation. It's pretty funny. It might be on their web site.

For me, we're taking two trips to Jackson Hole, WY. One a long weekend and the other a week with family. One of the bands is playing a festival in western Colorado, so that'll be a three day camping trip. Other then that, we're staying close to home.

garytelecastor · June 12th, 2008, 02:58 AM

Holy Frijoles Nick-
What do you do beside play? sit and worry about whether to look at the beautiful scenery on the right or the left?

furrfurrfurr · June 12th, 2008, 03:05 AM

i LOVE stay-cation.

There's no place like home. That's where the Teles are.

garytelecastor · June 12th, 2008, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by mellecaster

I've been on a Stay-Cation fer quite a spell.......

Gotta be honest here Mellecaster, uh....you got me a little freaked out here bud....so what are you saying.....you are writing from.....from.....from......BEYOND THE GRAVE?!?!?!?!

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Tele-Caster · June 12th, 2008, 06:40 AM

Since moving here to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, my life is, essentially, a looooong vacation.

Places to fly fish? Check. The Upper Illinois River (and my little fishin' hole at No Head Hollow) is just minutes from my home. There's the tailwater of the lower river below the Tenkiller Ferry Dam for trout, too. Oh, and of course, there is Lake Tenkiller itself. And the Barron Fork, and so on and so forth.

Places to shoot? Check. There's a shooting range on the Cherokee Wildlife Area and it takes me a whopping 15 minutes to get there.

Places to hunt? Check. In addition to the above, there are other Wildlife Management Areas near town, and squirrel season is on again, so........

Places to cycle? Check. All kinds of backroads here for road biking. Lots of dirt roads for the mountain bike, too.

Places to play at and people to jam with? Check.

I can have all of the fun I can handle right here in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. No need for me to leave to do the stuff I like to do. Besides, home is where where my guitars are, as another already eloquently pointed out.

I will be going back out to California in a couple of weeks, but I'll be working while I'm there, so it isn't really a "vacation." But the "work" I'll be doing is shooting photos and fly fishing for one of my magazine writing gigs, so I guess it is kind of a vacation, after all. If the point of going wasn't largely work related, I'd stay right here where I am.

And I'd do that even if gas wasn't $3.85 a gallon.

-JP

June 11th, 2008, 06:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
Arlo Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Maine [in a van down by the river] Age: 50 Posts: 2,326	Stay-cation Any one else planning on a Stay-cation this year? We usually go overseas but I think we will stay right here in Maine this year. Bar Harbor - 2 nights Southwest Harbor - 2 nights Camden - 1 night Pemaquid Point - 1 night Boothbay Harbor - 2 nights Portland - 1 night Looking forward to this one too. __________________ My music? It is free for my friends.

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tiktok Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 3,860	I already had two on the books from the end of last year, so I'm committed at this point. And there's out-of-state festival gigs in August and September--who knows how much those will cost by the time they roll around. I am forgoing travel for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year though. __________________ It takes two people to paint a perfect painting: one to paint it, and the other to shoot him when it's done. http://www.myspace.com/travishartnett http://www.myspace.com/sugarcanemutiny http://www.myspace.com/davidbavas

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woodman Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mint Hill, NC Age: 62 Posts: 5,897	when i was working full-time, i took a lot of stay-cation time -- just hanging out at the house doing stuff i'd been wanting to do for months! now that i'm retarded, uh, i mean retired, it's like being on stay-cation all the time. __________________ Truth is stranger than fact ... www.myspace.com/woodymitchellmusic BAND PAGES: www.myspace.com/stragglerswing (Stragglers - Western Swing) www.myspace.com/loafersgloryband (Loafers Glory - '70s country-rock)

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mellecaster Friend of Leo's Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Maryland Posts: 4,698 17 Photos	I've been on a Stay-Cation fer quite a spell....... __________________ I have never owned an Ipod or Blackberry..and doubt that I ever will......

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woodman Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mint Hill, NC Age: 62 Posts: 5,897	dang, Dan, you dun moved! i knew it was in your plans, but didn't realize you'd done the deed. how ya like it? __________________ Truth is stranger than fact ... www.myspace.com/woodymitchellmusic BAND PAGES: www.myspace.com/stragglerswing (Stragglers - Western Swing) www.myspace.com/loafersgloryband (Loafers Glory - '70s country-rock)

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Wally Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Lubbock, TX Posts: 3,988	spend your money where your heart...and butt..is....that's my motto. Arlo,...location: down by the river in a van?...so, is that how you afford those overseas trips? lol.... somehow, I just knew it wasn't true! I just spent two nights and 3 days in Austin. I saw Redd Saturday afternoon, and got my lesson in guitar humility. I tried to learn a little bit about playing, too...but his hands don't reveal much! Must get closer... Money flies out of the hand these days. I could have had a flight to Hawaii and 5 nights paid for with what I spent down there. OF course, I would have had to have left the wife at home! LOL... That would have led to HUGE expenses upon my return, right? AS the judge said to Ray...."I think it's cheaper to keep her!" Whoopee!

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Dan R Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Charleston, SC Age: 50 Posts: 888	I finally moved to the city where I want to live, so everyday is like a vacation for me. I was a habitual tourist that decided to move here. I like to travel, but it's not in the cards this year. Dan R

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Daddydex Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,715	I think all the shore points will be buzzing this year. We might take a run up the eastern seaboard but I doubt we will make it past Boston. If gas prices were lower we may have planned to go a good bit further. Dan __________________ Teles are like Mr. Potato head Last edited by Daddydex; June 11th, 2008 at 08:10 PM. Reason: My Name is not DanDan

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mudbean Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: SoCal Semi-Desert Semi-Paradise Age: 49 Posts: 1,704	Oh, man, Jim Campilongo is playing up in SF over my birthday weekend and I REALLY wanna go, but I doubt we can afford to make the trip. mud __________________ www.mudbean.com "Do ya want it to be interesting, or do ya want it to be true?" "So far, it's neither."

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markothefish Friend of Leo's Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Greenville, Rhode Island Age: 42 Posts: 2,009 7 Photos	We'll be staying next week for 9 days at a beach house on Minot Beach in Scituate Mass. My wifes aunt couldn't rent it that week and she will let us stay there. But no long driving trips this year ... __________________ Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. Groucho Marx

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Ricky D. Tele-Holic Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Maryland Age: 57 Posts: 876	Just spent a week in South Nags Head. Once we got there, didn't turn a wheel. Two minute walk down the beach to Charlie Oliver's pier, as pleasant a place to spend a day fishing as I could want.

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Tim Armstrong Moderator Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Berlin, Maryland, USA Age: 49 Posts: 9,552	I live in a beach resort town, and we gig on Saturdays, so getting away for a vacation can be difficult. Last summer, I did make it out to Colorado for a friend's wedding, and spent ten days (the whole band took that one weekend off). By choice, we're not gigging quite as much this summer as we have in years past, we'll average two gigs a week (it's been as much as five, a few years ago!). Playing that much, while great for the wallet and the chops, meant that by September we were all utterly spent! Won't be that bad, this year, instead I'll be utterly broke. I ought to be able to get some bus driving work, so it won't be THAT bad. One thing I'm hoping to do is to take some of those mid-week days and go camping up in the Appalachians. I really need to get away from the beach (and the flat, chicken-farm-filled interior of the Delmarva Peninsula!)... Cheers, Tim __________________ http://www.moodswingers.org

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BlueMidnight Tele-Meister Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Northern Cal Posts: 162	We go to a Sonoma State beach every Fathers Day and camp on the beach for four days. This will be are fifth or sixth year. It's only three hours away towing a trailer, so I guess it's a semi-stay-cation.

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tazzboy Friend of Leo's Join Date: May 2005 Location: Eugene, Oregon Age: 31 Posts: 3,151	The place my folks and I are going to is at the Space museum in McMinnville, Or to see Howard Hughes Spruce Goose. __________________ tazzboy

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Rizo Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Athens, OH Posts: 1,141	I thought I was going on a permanent vacation (see related thread) but it looks like I made the cut. Or didn't make the cut? Whatever, I'm still employed... I had two weeks off though, and I'm about bored out of my mind. Oh well, back to work Monday. I might take two more at the end of the summer, but we'll see... definitely not going anywhere as I'm trying to move into a cheaper place and need some cash for that. __________________ "You say you want to play country, but you're in a punk rock band."

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Nick JD Friend of Leo's Join Date: May 2007 Location: North NSW, Australia Age: 36 Posts: 2,496	Stay-cation? Hell yeah! This is the view out my kitchen window. Banana farm in the mist. Winter 2008. The local water supply dam is under that cloud - water's warmer than the air this time of year at night so it's foggy up that valley. See the squiggly line just under the "Gold Coast" - that's where these photos are at. __________________

June 12th, 2008, 02:43 AM	#20 (permalink)
Paul in Colorado Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Fort Collins, CO Age: 55 Posts: 4,319 3 Photos	In the latest issue of Ready Made Magazine they list ten suggestions for a Stay-cation. It's pretty funny. It might be on their web site. For me, we're taking two trips to Jackson Hole, WY. One a long weekend and the other a week with family. One of the bands is playing a festival in western Colorado, so that'll be a three day camping trip. Other then that, we're staying close to home. __________________ www.tuatha.net

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garytelecastor Friend of Leo's Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,582 18 Photos	Holy Frijoles Nick- What do you do beside play? sit and worry about whether to look at the beautiful scenery on the right or the left? __________________ éí 'aaníígÓÓ 'áhoot'é Would you mind holding this bag while we go through the custom shop????? Redd Volkaert is a Jedi Knight at one with the Force!!!

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furrfurrfurr Friend of Leo's Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South of Heaven Posts: 2,444	i LOVE stay-cation. There's no place like home. That's where the Teles are. __________________ Hope I'm not too Messianic or a trifle too Satanic. Meow.

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Tele-Caster TDPRI Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tahlequah, OK Age: 43 Posts: 86	Stay-Cation's all I ever wanted....... Since moving here to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, my life is, essentially, a looooong vacation. Places to fly fish? Check. The Upper Illinois River (and my little fishin' hole at No Head Hollow) is just minutes from my home. There's the tailwater of the lower river below the Tenkiller Ferry Dam for trout, too. Oh, and of course, there is Lake Tenkiller itself. And the Barron Fork, and so on and so forth. Places to shoot? Check. There's a shooting range on the Cherokee Wildlife Area and it takes me a whopping 15 minutes to get there. Places to hunt? Check. In addition to the above, there are other Wildlife Management Areas near town, and squirrel season is on again, so........ Places to cycle? Check. All kinds of backroads here for road biking. Lots of dirt roads for the mountain bike, too. Places to play at and people to jam with? Check. I can have all of the fun I can handle right here in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. No need for me to leave to do the stuff I like to do. Besides, home is where where my guitars are, as another already eloquently pointed out. I will be going back out to California in a couple of weeks, but I'll be working while I'm there, so it isn't really a "vacation." But the "work" I'll be doing is shooting photos and fly fishing for one of my magazine writing gigs, so I guess it is kind of a vacation, after all. If the point of going wasn't largely work related, I'd stay right here where I am. And I'd do that even if gas wasn't $3.85 a gallon. -JP