Another benefit to the “going-back-to-school” plan — Prairie and I are starting to plan a big summer vacation during the gap between summer and fall quarters. We haven’t been on a big vacation since the trip to Hawaii for H and P’s wedding a couple years ago, and haven’t even had a lot of chances for smaller weekend ‘mini-breaks‘ lately, so we’re really looking forward to this.
Details are still pretty unformed at the moment, but the basic plan is to take about 2 1/2 weeks in late August/early September to head down to California to visit the many members of Prairie’s extended family who live down that way. The basic plan is…
- Leg one: Seattle to Ashland, to spend a few days in Ashland and see one of the plays in this year’s Shakespeare Festival (we’re leaning towards Much Ado About Nothing at the Elizabethan Stage).
- Leg two: Ashland to San Diego via I-5. Visiting family and seeing sites (including Disneyland — while my family went to Disney World a number of times while visiting Mom’s parents in Florida, I’ve never been to Disneyland).
- Leg three: San Diego to San Francisco, driving up along the coast. More family visiting and sightseeing.
- Leg four: San Francisco to home, driving up along the coast.
We’re both really looking forward to this. We’re also starting to (even more vaguely) discuss next summer’s big vacation, as we’ll be on the same schedule again, and the summer of 2010 should see us in Alaska for a few weeks. We did a week in the winter about three years ago, now it’s time to show Prairie Alaska’s other (and much more comfortable) extreme.
Plans are afoot!