This Year's Vacation will be ...

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Current Song - It's My Life (No Doubt)

An interesting one, and nothing generic.

Next week, I will be driving up and down the Mississippi River from Clinton to Lake Itasca in Minnesota. A riverside drive, you can call it. I'll also be visiting the northern Minnesota forests before entering Wisconsin and going along the St. Croix River down to the Mississippi.

Once past the Twin Cities, the river gets a bit narrow and I can see what's on the other side a little better.

It's more of an outdoors-y kind of trip, and I prefer these over going to Florida or California or Panama, where everything's real busy. This particular vacation I'm going on is a very quiet one. I always thought a vacation is a getaway; sure Cali is a getaway from Sterling, but it isn't a getaway from everything.

I will be leaving on Monday, April 4; and won't get back until late Friday night, April 8.

Other than the path I plan on taking, I don't know what's out there. That's the fun of it. I didn't research every little stop I'll be taking. So it's a surprise even for me. There is one particular place, a casino in northern Wisconsin, that I'd like to stop by.

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For the second year in a row I'm going on a vacation. Last year's vacation to the halls of fame can be read about HERE. The vacation to Tucson to see my grandparents can be seen HERE.

After this year, however, I won't be going on any more self-vacations for a while.

I decided that I was going to put my money toward useful things. This is coupled with the fact that I've pretty much been nearly everywhere I wanted to go and see. I'm only 24, and I've seen a lot of things.

Things I've seen up to this point:

Baseball Hall of Fame
Football Hall of Fame
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Cedar Point
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
MoTown Museum
Canada
Lambeau Field
St. Louis Arch
Milwaukee
Route 66 in Illinois
Old Tucson, and everything else there.


Places I still want to see, and will reserve them for some other time in my life:

London
Paris
Pacific Coast
New York City
Boston
Alaska
Hawaii
Texas
Toronto/Montreal
Graceland


I'd rather spread all of this out over the course of my entire lifetime, and probably with anything she (if there ever will be a she) wants to do and go to. But really, things financially aren't going all that well for me personally. I went right on budget last year ($600 plus hotels). But that doesn't mean I won't move from this spot. If asked to tag along in a trip, I will be more than happy to.

Can't wait! About a week away!