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Across the Fence:  Vacationing  |
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 01 2008 : 9:48:04 PM
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We have been thinking about our vacation whenever we get the chance to take another one. However, I don't know where to go to. Growing up, I've been to....going west to east: Idaho - Utah - Montana - Wyoming - Colorado - North Dakota - South Dakota - Nebraska - Kansas - Oklahoma - Texas - Minnesota - Iowa - Missouri - Arkansas - Wisconsin - Illinois - Michigan - Indiana - Ohio - West Virginia - Virginia - Kentucky (duh..haha) - Tennessee - North Carolina - Florida - Georgia
What is so sad...I have never been to South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana yet I've been all the way out west! We went on a lot of long vacations growing up. Kinda like Lampoons Vacation going to Wally World. haha. I love Tennessee and have been wanting to go to Pennsylvania to see the Amish country up there. We usually go up to Indiana or Ohio and see their Amish country. Perhaps Savannah or maybe for once getting to South Carolina!! I'm not a beachy person, but I would love to see the ocean, which I've never seen. Yep, been to Florida but only one time and I was 5 years old. If we do go on vacation, it will be by car. It will take a LOT of convincing to get me up in the air again...and definitely not another boat. Jess does NOT do boats, small or large!!
Where are your favorite vacation destinations??
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2008 : 10:09:37 PM
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OH yeah...there might be one plane trip I would be willing to make, but hopefully that will be one day.
Funniest vacation experience...sleeping in the Wigwam Village over in Cave City near Wilma's when we were little. It is still up and running after all these years!!
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2008 : 10:15:15 PM
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If you want ocean but dont want "beachy" Maine is definately the way to go. I love it there so much. You can rent a little cabn, walk the Marginal Way in Ogunquit and visit lots of beautiful lighthouses. Also there is no place in the world that has Antique shops like Maine!!! The best I have ever seen. Also if you ate lucky you can spot moose, bear and bald eagles. And lobster is the best food and SO cheap in Maine(compared to the rest of the world) there are darling little towns like Kittery, ogunquit, Kennebunkport and York Beach(hubby and i honeymooned there) You can also go to Freeport home of LLBean!
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2008 : 10:51:31 PM
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One of my cousins went to Maine and mentioned how pretty it was up there. I love lighthouses and would like to take some photographs of some if I ever get the chance. Hmm...may have to do a roadtrip up the east coast. We usually head to Nashville as a vacation spot...we love it down there so much.
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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New England
True Blue Farmgirl
65 Posts
Hannah
Hardyville
ky
USA
65 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 06:26:13 AM
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Jessica..you have hit 'home' with this question when you mention South Carolina. Art and I lived there for several years and the old, southern experience is definitely worth the trip.
We lived in Charleston and always said it was more like a town than a city - no high rise etc. It is mainly centered around what's called the Battery and the strip along the ocean front is where the famous RAINBOW ROW is - which is several, really old Charleston homes painted in different pastel colors and only the fronts show. See, years ago you were only taxed on what was visable which was rather clever. (bet you didn't know you were going to get a history lesson with this to!) Anyhow, the Battery is wonderful with quaint shops and just walking along insuch a historic place is great.
There is THE OLD EXCHANGE BUILDING along there with so much history and you must go in, it's where slaves were kept in the cellar etc. and if you go I will tell you a very interesting story when you get back.Then on to the MARKET - you will love it! It's been there for years, a long, open trade market with just a roof and tables where people can come daily to sell their wares. When we lived there I rented a table by the month but you just payed daily when the woman came around to collect - I sold sweet grass baskets that I decorated with dried flowers and would work every night until mid-night re-stocking. Then there are the restaurants in the area which are great, old southern food and good seafood. There is the famous Queens rest. famous for She Crab Soup and if you are there and look out the window you will see the home of the author of Gone With the Wind. (I'm testing my memory here, it could be another rest - no matter)
THEN...if you leave Charleston and drive up towards Myrtle Beach you will see dozens of lean-to along the hwy with local natives weaving and selling sweetgrass baskets...you don't have to go all the way to MB but along the way can be interesting. Again, alot to do there. Of course Savannah is wonderful and very southern, we never spent alot of time there but did several shows along the waterfront over the years. I lived in Alabama when I was in my early 20's so since then they could have torn down the state and re-built the whole thing!!! But that is another nice southern state, we especially like the ones that emphasize their heritage and tone down the commercialism...also lived in Louisiana right out of high school. Besides getting married and having my first son while we lived there we saw ELVIS in person! He was at the Louisina Hayride - that is where he had his big break and he promosised them if he ever became famous he would come back and do a free concert - he DID and he came back. Our best friend was the MC of the 'Hayride' and invited us that night. Keep us posted on what you decide to do. HANNAH
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knewslady
True Blue Farmgirl
555 Posts
Kathy
Russellville
KY
USA
555 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 08:48:24 AM
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Hannah is definitely right about South Carolina. Even though I have not been fortunate enough to live there I love Charleston and the whole state. It is the one place I have always said I would love to move to. And the people are just wonderful, friendly and just great. I would consider South Carolina if I were you, you will love the Market. Just my two cents worth.
Will always be a farmgirl at heart
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farmgirl blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
777 Posts
Lea
TN
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Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 09:44:13 AM
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I haven't been on many vacations in my life, but I always long for the mountains. We stayed in a mountain cabin in NC 20 years ago when we first married. I've always wanted to go back there. Mountain laurel & running creeks so clear you could see to the bottom. It is the stuff dreams are made of for me.
Blessings, Lea
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New England
True Blue Farmgirl
65 Posts
Hannah
Hardyville
ky
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 12:41:36 PM
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Kathy, I can guarantee you would LOVE living in Charleston. No matter if we were working, fishing, shopping or walking along the Battery...we always felt like we were on vacation. The climate and atmosphere just makes you know you are somewhere different - and special. I'm sure you got that feeling when you visitied.
The only reason we left is because we had started our sign business and after a year knew we had to move it to the country, no one wanted to listen to us sawing and pounding all day.
And that is when we found the log cabins...I had a booth at a downtown, monthly antique show and the man across from me commented the first day "your antiques would look great in a log cabin"...of course I told him I thought so too! He told me he had one for sale and when he told me Kentucky....well, he may as well have said Europe. We had never been to that part of the country. But as they say the rest is history, we talked and agreed to go look at his cabin and made arrangements for the following month. It was a 10 hour drive and in Knoxville we looked at the map and saw a "back road that would be shorter"...well, that ADDED about 3 hours to the trip up through an area that was so remote. At that point we decided we may have made a mistake, this was too rural for us. But as we approached civilization it was ok and we began to see Kentucky, The Bluegrass State. Alot of stories came out of that trip and when we look back we know we were true pioneers. We have a sign in our home that I did that says PIONEER SPIRIT and that has been with us ever since we first went to the cabin.
Our 13 years on that land were amazing, from the time we first walked down that hill to that very day we drove up the hill in our moving van when we sold the property. We had actually 'gone back in time' when we arrived there...no city water, a well that went dry, there was NO road and we had to park at the top of hill and walk down in the beginning, no heat etc but we rolled up our sleeves and went to work, never hired anyone except those who were licensedand required and all the time building and painting our signs and doing 12 shows a year. Building the barn was an event as was buying and moving the other log cabin there...with little money we worked hard to get it done. We even did a little bartering. Then one day we received the note from Mary Emmerling asking if Country Living could come and photograph..and once again the rest is history. (I just posted her note on my picture trail today in the CL album). What an exciting time it was from then on, I wish everyone who is as passionate as we are about what we do could have this experience.
Well.......I certainly strayed away from Charleston, didn't I! Hope I haven't bored you girls. I guess you can tell I LOVE to talk about those years, we didn't have computers, email, cel phones etc then so our contact with everyone was difficult. I am really enjoying hearing from so many now.
Hannah
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 1:29:10 PM
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Charlestown, oh one of my favorite places, We spent a week at Edisto beach last fall, very secluded not even a BIG M I loved the beach and spent every day thereExcept for onr I just had to go to Charlestown, I told my husband I wouldnt be doing antiquing but I just couldnt help my self, the devil made me do it
Farm Girl #96
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 1:33:06 PM
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I would love to go to Outer Banks and to Charleston. Hmm...looks like I'm going to be looking into some books at the library for ideas too. :)
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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New England
True Blue Farmgirl
65 Posts
Hannah
Hardyville
ky
USA
65 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 2:52:32 PM
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Jessica, just go to google.com and then type in Charleston, Battery, Old exchange building and that will begin to bring up good information. Also type in Rainbow Row Theres alot of good informtion on some of the sites and they keep them current. Hannah
BE SURE TO LOOK AT OUR NEW WEBB PAGE...Thanks and enjoy every minute of this day!! Hannah
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 7:11:42 PM
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Thanks for the heads up Hannah. :) I was going to go to the library and pick up one of those Frodor's guides to SC too to read. I love looking at the photographs and learning a little bout the history of places.
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 9:19:44 PM
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Since my husband and I got married, almost 12 years ago...we have taken the same two vacations...Calif to Utah..when we lived in Calif, and not Utah to Calif. (our three oldest boys and alot of family live there) I would dearly love to have a DIFFERENT vacation some time!! I would miss my boys so much..but it WOULD be fun to see some other stuff. We have decided that for sure next time we go to Calif we will take a different route and stop to visit my Aunt and Uncle (my dad's brother ) in Gardnerville Nevada. We could stay there one night and it would just be a different route than that same old one through the desert and all..but..I would love to see the south and the new England states too! I did get to go to Kentucky when my perfect granddaughter was born 5 and 1/2 years ago...but my mom and I flew there from Calif (it was a week before we moved here when we got home!) so I saw bits of Missouri and Illinois and then spent one day in Tenessee..mostly at Bass pro shop (grown son) and like that. I have a dear freind I would love to visit in Alabama and would love to see Oklahoma and Arkansas where my grandparents came from. I love car vacations..you just see so much more!!
When I was a kid growing up we always spent our vacations in the west, but it was fun. We went to Yellowstone and Yosemite camping and through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming every year. We always rented a big camper and hauled it on my dad's pickup. I have some great memories of those trips.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
3410 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 10:49:15 PM
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Aunt Jenny I have never had many vacations, but have traveled the USA, iT was always buiness but I got to see a lot of places The Grand Canyon,Hoover Dam, Pikes Peak,Las Vegas,The painted Desert, The New England Sea Coast, I couldnt begin to name them all, but we could only stay a day or so extra, but I am thankful what I did get to see Especially Mary Janes Farm
Farm Girl #96
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 11:39:10 PM
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THAT is my most dreamed of vacation right now..seeing MaryJanes farm...I want to get there sometime soon for sure.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Lavendar fields dreamer
True Blue Farmgirl
1032 Posts
little monkeys mommy
washington
USA
1032 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2008 : 02:10:33 AM
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ok so i didnt read the entire post but will later
i would say if you love the coast you should check out the wash/oregon coast its beautiful and every beach is different
lavendar girl
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