Your Vacation Plans!
Posted by Kim Murphy on 11 May 2009 | Posted in: Life After School, Teachers and Teaching
| Now that the weather is warming up, my thoughts begin to turn toward vacation. Just the word vacation fills me with joy, excitement, and a desire for office products. Why office products, you ask? Continue to read and I’ll enlighten you! I like to take vacations with my best friend Jules, a classmate from my grade school days and a chronic planner just like myself. (That’s us in the photo drinking bubble tea in California.) |  |
By “planner,” I mean that I recently purchased an accordion file and tabs so I can divide the sections by sightseeing options, restaurant possibilities, and local maps.
Jules and I like to be prepared for every eventuality. Nothing—short of losing the accordion file—will disrupt our vacation goals. This works for us and we have an excellent time! Do you have vacation plans for the summer? Where are you going? Are you a fan of the well-thought-out vacation or do you fly by the seat of your pants? As you read through everyone’s vacation plans and desires, no doubt we’ll all feel reenergized and ready to take on the remainder of the school year!
All the best!
Kim Murphy
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Over Spring Break a fellow teacher and I spent the week in Jamaica! We had so much fun that after summer school in August we are going back! What a great way to end the summer and start a new school year!
Hi all! While I am a sixth year teacher, this is my first year as a Department of Defense Schools teacher (near Tokyo, Japan). We are spending three weeks in the US, visiting the east coast (Boston, Cape Cod, Sturbridge)and the west coast (Seattle, Port Townsend, Olympia, Gorge, Tri-Cities, WA). When we return to Japan, we will pretty much relax and visit local tourist spots like Tokyo Disney, Yokohama and Kamakura. We might try to visit Seoul, South Korea and Okinawa if we get a chance. We are very excited about our first summer here since the Japanese students are in school for part of our summer…so no July crowds at Tokyo Disneyworld, etc.
Have a wonderful summer!!!!
Three years ago we traveled to Alaska. We left on a ferry from Birmingham, WA. We visited Ketchikan, Sitkas, Juneau (with it’s numerous eagles, Mendenhall Glacier, another enormous glacier we visited by boat and saw it calving) and lastly on the Inside Passage we visited Skagway. There we rode on an old steam locomotive with wondrous views and awesome tales during the gold stike. We also picked up a rental RV and camped on our trip through the Yukon to the Northern parts of Alaska. Using an RV was one of the limited options that we considered to connect the south to the northern Alaska. We visited many towns along the way and drove into Alaska on the old Alcan highway. We stayed at Denali and saw bear, caribou and marmuts(sp). We visited and flew out of Anchorage - we have made a promise to return to the spacious and outstanding paradise called Alaska. Enjoy! Karen
This first time Kindergarten teacher will take a much needed rest to reflect on the GREAT year just completed and will start making plans for next year!! I plan to attend a B.E.R. Kindergarten Conference in Denver and will take time to garden, work around the house, have MANY garage sales, and help out in the community when possible!! God bless, and have a HAPPY SUMMER EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My plans this summer is to go visit my aunts in Los Angeles and Redwood City, California. My little family is taking my mom to visit her sisters. She’s never been to California. It will be an exciting adventure for my mom. She finally gets to see where her sisters live and we are all excited for her. My husband has never been to San Franciso and we are going to look at one of the culinary art schools there for him. I’m sooo excited that I can’t wait for June to come around the corner. Yesterday was my students’ last day of school (preschool). I can’t wait to take soo many pictures and bring back some things to share with my new preschoolers this Fall. My son loves to dance in Pow-wows, and there are alot of pow-wows happening in Southern California this summer.
We are going to South Carolina, Myrtle Beach to be exact! There is nothing like the sound of the waves, the smell of the salt water, and the feeling of the sand slipping from your feet in the surf to revive us for another year. My husband and I both teach (7-8 SS and 3rd Grade) and we are so stressed by June from State Testing that we need a chance to revive! This trip will really help us get relaxed and ready for the next year!
I love Alaska and think that Fran is doing it the right way. (or at least one way I would love to do it) I have been to Alaska, but by ship.
I hope we get to take a family vacation to Utah with my 4 grandsons and do some camping and hiking. We will see how everyones plans work out. It is always hard to get everyone in the same place at the same time. I love to camp but my husband does not. He like to stay in hotels.
But, my husband and I are going to go to Greece with my brother and sail around the islands and hike and ride moterbikes, and eat lots of great food. Taking time with family and friends is what is important to me.
I, too, have big plans for this coming summer. I will be traveling back to the U.S. (since I live in Naples, Italy) and will visit New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia, New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana–not in that particular order.
My husband and I work for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools and we return to the states every summer to visit friends and family.
This summer is a big one for me. I’m driving my thirty foot RV from New York to Alaska (by myself). I plan on having a website for our students, especially our fifth graders who study the states and the second graders who study the country with Flat Stanley. I don’t plan day by day as the best part of vacations are the surprises along the way. I have certain sites that I don’t want to miss, but will look for birding, hiking, archeological and paleontology opportunities. Some of the best museums are in the many small towns across our nation. I’m looking forward meeting people from our country and learning about their heritage. Yes, I have to plan for emergencies! One has to have a plan with a rig on the Alaska Highway. But if anyone has driven it lately I’d like to hear from you! Wish me luck!