{"id":7241,"date":"2009-06-01T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2019-12-23T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T22:16:48","slug":"preliminary-vacation-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/06\/01\/preliminary-vacation-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Vacation Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another benefit to the &#8220;going-back-to-school&#8221; plan &#8212; Prairie and I are starting to plan a big summer vacation during the gap between summer and fall quarters. We haven&#8217;t been on a big vacation since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/72157602123685258\/\" title=\"Flickr: djwudi: Hawai'i Vacation\">trip to Hawaii for H and P&#8217;s wedding<\/a> a couple years ago, and haven&#8217;t even had a lot of chances for smaller weekend &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/collections\/72157594588117410\/\" title=\"Flickr: djwudi: Travel and Vacations\">mini-breaks<\/a>&#8216; lately, so we&#8217;re really looking forward to this.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s extended family who live down that way. The basic plan is&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leg one: Seattle to Ashland, to spend a few days in Ashland and see one of the plays in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osfashland.org\/\" title=\"Oregon Shakespeare Festival\">Shakespeare Festival<\/a> (we&#8217;re leaning towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osfashland.org\/browse\/production.aspx?prod=167\" title=\"OSF: Much Ado About Nothing\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osfashland.org\/plays\/theatres\/elizabethan.aspx\" title=\"OSF: Elizabethan Stage\">Elizabethan Stage<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Leg two: Ashland to San Diego via I-5. Visiting family and seeing sites (including <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyland.disney.go.com\/\" title=\"Disneyland\">Disneyland<\/a> &#8212; while my family went to <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyworld.disney.go.com\/\" title=\"Walt Disney World\">Disney World<\/a> a number of times while visiting Mom&#8217;s parents in Florida, I&#8217;ve never been to Disneyland).<\/li>\n<li>Leg three: San Diego to San Francisco, driving up along the coast. More family visiting and sightseeing.<\/li>\n<li>Leg four: San Francisco to home, driving up along the coast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re both really looking forward to this. We&#8217;re also starting to (even more vaguely) discuss <em>next<\/em> summer&#8217;s big vacation, as we&#8217;ll be on the same schedule again, and the summer of 2010 should see us in Alaska for a few weeks. We did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/72157594450968405\/\" title=\"Flickr: djwudi: Christmas in Alaska 2006\">a week in the winter<\/a> about three years ago, now it&#8217;s time to show Prairie Alaska&#8217;s other (and much more comfortable) extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are afoot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We haven&#8217;t been on a big vacation since the trip to Hawaii for Hope and Peter&#8217;s wedding a couple years ago, and haven&#8217;t even had a lot of chances for smaller weekend &#8216;mini-breaks&#8217; lately, so we&#8217;re really looking forward to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[13,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}