Conference quark::human_relations-v1

    We're going to AUSTRALIA!!!!
    
    My esteemed spouse has to spend part of the time at Australian DECUS,
    but what the heck -- I think I can find something to do in Perth
    while he's out giving Data Dictionary talks!
    
    Then it's back to the novel -- whew.  I can hardly wait.
    
    --bonnie
     

    Funny you should ask.  My husband and I were just talking about
    this last weekend.  The question was "What was our favorite vacation?"
    We both said at the same time "Grand Canyon!"
    
    In 1983 we took three weeks off.  The first week was great, beautiful,
    fantastic, awe inspiring,............sorry got carried away.  We
    took a white water rafting trip down the Colorado.  Ted Hatch was
    the company and I would recommend them highly.  
    
    The canyon was so quite (except for those rapids up ahead - one
    was approx. 1 mile long HOLD ON!).  To sleep under the stars and
    wake up to the sun playing across the canyon walls was breathtaking.
    The daily hiking up some side canyons was enough to work up a thirst
    for the Coors floating in a mesh back behind the raft.  The raft
    usually holds about 15 people but we were lucky and had a raft od
    ten - the ten strangers on the first day were a very tight knit
    group on the last (friendships that are still going).  At the end
    of the trip you are helicoptered out of the canyon and flown into
    LasVegas - what a culture shock.  I could go on forever about that
    trip and if anyone is interested on more info contact me at
    SAGE::PREVOST.  In fact we are going again next year!
                                                         
    The second and third week of that trip was spend in Vegas and then
    driving to San Diego and then up to San Francisco.  Whew, what a
    long drive!                                          
                                                         
    This year we are going to Hawaii (Maui and Kona) for two weeks.
    If it is half as great as the Colorado then it will be worth it.
    
    Thanks for the mini vacation while writing this!   

    
    JM
     
    

O.K.  I know I promised to enter my note earlier, sorry, real work
comes first.

	Anyways, I'm kind of disappointed that there are only two
replies to my original note.  Maybe lots of people are on holidays
right now who would normally respond to this conference.  I hope
thats the case.

	As for the previous entries, thank-you for your contributions.
Both of them sound extremely exciting and exhilerating. 

	By the way, for most of you who may have seen the few notes
that I've entered into this conference, my responses are usually
analyitical since I have an extreme love for psychology.  I just
want this note and responses to be lots of fun.  From the first
two entries, it looks like we're on the right track !

	Vicki and I are taking a week in August for our holidays.
We're not going anywhere exclusive like Australia, or the Grand
Caynon because we can't afford it right now.  We're saving up for
our honeymoon which will be in June /88.  

	This year, we're going to a place called "Canada's Wonderland",
which is just north? of Toronto Ontario, Canada.  I've been there 
before and think it's terrific.  It's kind of like Canada's answer
to Disney World, but instead of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, there
is the Smurfs and Flintstones.  The park is really geared for the
young ones, but it's a fun place to visit.  The roller coasters are
INCREDIBLE.  They have one that goes faster than 60 mph, and the ride
lasts for about 5 minutes.  It's the fastest (and scariest) coaster
I've ever been on.  They also have a stage set up for theatre during
the day, and turns into a rock and roll concert at night.  When I 
was there last I saw the "SPOONS".  If you're unfamiliar with the
"SPOONS" they are one of Canada's leading rock groups.  (By the way,
laster in August, I'm going to a concert that BOTH David Bowie
and Duran Duran are playing at.)

	On the way home from Toronto we're going to do some
camping.  There's one privately owned campground that we're
going to spend a few days at.  It's an "au naturel" campground.
Neither of us have been to a place like this before, so we
don't really know what to expect, except the obvious I guess.
Re .1 - are you going to soak up the sun while your husband
attends decus ?  I hear the Australian beaches are famous for this
type of thing.

	On our honeymoon next June, we're going to a place called
Eden II in Jamaica.  For anyone who has ever been to Hedonism II
in Jamaica, you'll be able to appreciate what Eden II would be like.
You pay one shot for everything before you go, and the only money
you have to worry about is spending money.  Eden II has one main 
difference from Hedonism.  Eden II is a couples only resort.  No
singles are allowed, sorry, however, Hedonism allows both singles
and couples but neither will allow children.  The facilities each
has to offer is incredible; waterskiing, scuba-diving, big beaches,
horseback riding, tennis, golf (nearby), archery, and the list goes
on and on.  I've got every travel brochure from almost every tour
company for the last 2 years.  I can hardly wait !

	Well that just about sums it up for me !  Now let's hear
what you're going to do for your vacation !

Happy Holidays,
Darrell

    Having put off major vacations for years and years at a time, we're
    finally planning to do some serious time-taking this summer. (Serious
    to us, meaning at least a week; for some folks it isn't serious
    unless they're gone for two or three weeks.)
    
    I'm taking my husband to Wyoming to look over my old stomping grounds
    and to visit Grand Teton and Yellowstone. This is the sort of trip
    that involves lots of driving, and many comments of the nature of
    "...and that's where we lived when I was in 5th grade, and this
    is where my best friend from junior high used to live, and that's
    the corner where I fell off my bike..." The narrator usually has
    a great time reminiscing, and the narratee gets to smile and look
    interested.

    Should be fun, though!
    
    -b

    Re: .1 & .3

    Keep in mind that Australia has seasons 6 months offset from
    ours in the northern hemisphere.  So, although it is summer
    here, it is mid-winter there.  I don't think you'll be
    doing much in the way of beach-like sunbathing.

					Marty

    Re .5
    
    	You're right, it will be winter down there, but from what I've
    been told, Australia never gets below 75 degrees in the winter.
    
    Darrell

    I will be going to a far-off city, where I will leave my hotel
    only to eat and do a little shopping.  I will pass from one
    over-crowded room to another, talk with a few hundred old friends,
    and, in my spare time, strangers will give me money.
    
    Translation:  I'm going to the World Science Fiction Convention
    in Brighton, England, but I will still be acting as treasurer for
    the World Science Fiction Convention in 1989.  (Wanna join?)
    
    Then two of us will take the train to Cornwall, tour, and stay in
    old inns.  At the end, we'll spend a day or two in London doing
    the usual things (except I'll make a pilgrimage to Liberty.)
    
    							Ann B.

    We're not taking any vacation time this summer, so that we can get
    away from the snow this winter; I can cope with the New England
    summer weather!  We're saving up to go to Curacao (Netherlands
    Antilles) over Thanksgiving.  Last winter we went back to the Galapagos
    Islands over Thanksgiving, and we went to the South Pacific for
    our fifth anniversary, so things are a bit tight right now!
    
    We took our honeymoon at a convention in Dayton, Ohio, (really!)
    so that we could go to Israel the next year.
    
    I love to travel!!!  When I was a kid, my family drove all over
    the US (especially years when my dad was not teaching summer school),
    so I've seen most of this country -- of course, driving around like
    that was alot cheaper in those days when gasoline was cheap!  I'd
    rather travel than replace my several-year-old car, etc.

    re: Australian weather in the winter --
    
    August is toward the end of winter in Australia.
    
    The continent is about the same size as the continental US, but it's
    considerably closer to the equator, so the weather in Sydney in August
    is, I am told, very roughly comparable to the weather in Washington,
    D.C., in late April.  The weather in the Great Barrier Reef area will
    be about like the weather in the Carribean in Feb.  (It's hard to make
    exact comparisons because the precipitation level differs so much.)
    
    In fact, some tour books recommend August and September for visiting
    the northern portions of Australia, since by November places like
    Darwin can be up over a hundred degrees.
    
    It does get colder than 75 degrees (I'm told there is great skiing
    in the mountains north of Melbourne and Sydney), but it never gets
    as cold as it does here. 

    --bonnie
    
    p.s. All temps in good ol' American farenheit.

 
 This fall, my wife and I are taking our five-year-old son to Disneyworld. This
will be the first real vacation that we've been on since we were married, and
will be _my_ first honest-to-Ghod vacation since I moved out of my parents home
back in 1973! We're all looking forward to it; Iain (our five-year-old) is
only slightly less excited than I am, and he's telling everyone we meet!

 It is going to be GREAT!

			Nigel

    Well, after ten years in southern California, I have returned to
    Europe. So I guess, I'll just enjoy Europe this summer. Planned
    is: the island of Capri in August for two weeks, actually between
    Capri and Naples, we have a big boat, and end of August or begining
    September, it will probably be the islands in Yugoslavia and Greece
    [Hvar, Krk(that's not a typo, it's the name), and most of the Greek
    islands.]. Then no more vacation until Christmas when I go to Israel.
    I think I'm going to enjoy Europe.

      Mine was when the wifie-poo and I went to St. Lucia
    and got hitched. Didn't know any one when we got there
    and left with many friends!
    
                   REK
    
    PS Nigel, The family and I are going to Disney World the last
    week in August, before she gets to big to travel!
    
    

    re -1 - see ya there!  We are planning on going at the same time.
    
    This will be my first "real" vacation EVER.  My family did
    visit-the-relatives "vacations", and I've been in that rut ever
    since.  This time I'm not even stopping on the way back (they
    suggested it when I told them we were going).  Gonna stay in
    a REAL hotel, eat at restaurants, and the object is to have FUN,
    not to catch up on who had a baby and who got married, and not
    to drive miles in a stuffy car.  Though we *are* planning on
    driving out to see the rockets and such, which I suppose is
    "educational" but sounds like a blast....

    
    --Louise