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lmccandless

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Maybe it's because I'm heading out the door for a weekend away with my best girlfriend for a much needed break, but I have travel on the brain today. So, here's a quick Getting to Know You:

1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?
2. What's your worst travel moment?
3. What's your fantasy trip?
4. Matching luggage or not?
5. Driver or passenger?
6. White knuckle or relaxed?
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?
Disney World - just the husband and me, we left all the kids with my mom
2. What's your worst travel moment?
driving 21 hours with my parents and siblings to go visit some very distant cousins
3. What's your fantasy trip?
hmmmm.... I dunno. I don't really think about this much.
4. Matching luggage or not?
We have it, but only because it was a gift.
5. Driver or passenger?
I prefer flying. lol
6. White knuckle or relaxed?
relaxed
 
1. My husband took me on really romantic trip to Paris for my 30th birthday. We landed the night before my birthday, so I even work up to a birthday breakfast there. *sigh* Yep, he's a keeper.
2. When we lived in Pennsylvania, we were a fair drive from the airport. I was supposed to fly to California for my uncle's wedding. I missed the plane and had to pay for a full-fare last minute ticket on another carrier to get there in time for the ceremony. Ouch.
3. Two weeks in the Italian countryside with DH. There would be lots of wine involved.
4. Matching luggage for myself...when the kids are in tow, I think we have the tackiest assortment ever.
5. DH and I share driving duties on roadtrips, but he probably drives more than me.
6. Despite the fact that I travel frequently and love being in other parts of the world, getting there kills me. I'm a terrible white knuckle flier. Airplanes blech...and I get really carsick unless I am in the front seat, so yeah....fun.
 
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Love this! :)

1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?
St. Petersburg (Russia). It was truly a dream vacation! The sights were just incredible, and we stayed at a super luxurious hotel too. Fantastic.
2. What's your worst travel moment?
Transoceanic flight (West Coast to Europe) with a kid crying the whole time in the row in front of us. And we were in business class. :shakehead I hate it when I cannot doze off on the plane, because I have a really bad time with jet lag (this was a 9 hour difference too!) and not getting any sleep on the plane makes it impossible not to sleep as soon as you arrive. Also, no sleep at all on another transoceanic flight with two men talking and laughing the whole time.
3. What's your fantasy trip?
I've always wanted to go to Egypt, but I don't feel safe going there, so who knows if I ever will... I'm thinking of Hawaii now.
4. Matching luggage or not?
Nope. Luggage is made to get ruined, so I don't want to spend money on it.
5. Driver or passenger?
Passenger all the time. :)
6. White knuckle or relaxed?
Relaxed.
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? st. lucia - just DH & i. yup.
2. What's your worst travel moment? none - make the best of it all. part of the story and the adventures.
3. What's your fantasy trip? greece - just DH & i. yup.
4. Matching luggage or not? ew.
5. Driver or passenger? driver.
6. White knuckle or relaxed? relaxed
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?
Ohh there have been a few I have really loved and for totally different reasons. I have fond memories of my trip to Italy in high school and of Disney with the family..but my best trip was probably our honeymoon to St. Lucia because it was just so beautifully relaxing and so gorgeous.

2. What's your worst travel moment?
Hmmmm...getting pulled over on my cross-country road-trip to university. *blushes*

3. What's your fantasy trip?
Ohhh I would love to visit New Zealand and Scotland. Oooh! And take a beautiful safari. A girl can dream right? lol

4. Matching luggage or not?
Meh. Maybe one day, but at the moment we are hodge podgers.

5. Driver or passenger?
I used to *have* to drive, but now I'm content to let DH take the wheel.

6. White knuckle or relaxed?
Flying? White knuckle, for sure. Otherwise I'm pretty laid back.
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?

Hmmm. Depends on what you mean by "best"! Best location? Most fun? I think one of my favorite vacations was just a 5 days camping trip at the beach when I was in high school.

2. What's your worst travel moment?

Trying to fly home from Acapulco with about 500 kids (literally - we were on a youth mission trip thing) and having our plane delayed by 9 hours.

3. What's your fantasy trip?

Europe. Italy. Greece. England. I want to go SO bad!

4. Matching luggage or not?

Yes, although we never (and I do mean never) use it!

5. Driver or passenger?

Passenger!

6. White knuckle or relaxed?

I'm pretty relaxed about most everything.
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? Paris when I was 16 y/o and loved every minute of it!

2. What's your worst travel moment? DFW! 'Nuff said....I can't think of a time that I've ever left when scheduled! LOL

3. What's your fantasy trip? A week on some high-class Mexican beach with....oh, I better stop right there! :D

4. Matching luggage or not? Does matching Walmart sacks count?!? No matching for me.

5. Driver or passenger? I'm a passenger until we get into the big cities then DH can't handle it.

6. White knuckle or relaxed? Mostly relaxed, I think.
 
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1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? Hard choice, Hard choice...I would say Hawaiian honeymoon!
2. What's your worst travel moment? Don't have one!!! Guess I'm like Amy - It's vacation...make the best of it!
3. What's your fantasy trip? I have lots of them! An African safari, an ocean hut in Tahiti (you know..those cute little houses that sit right in the ocean...heaven!)
4. Matching luggage or not? No - I'm not super high class, and don't use it enough to care!
5. Driver or passenger? I generally am passenger, especially at night!
6. White knuckle or relaxed? Relaxed, unless I have been in the car too long with kids being loud and needy! :)
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? Hawaiian honeymoon (Kauai)
2. What's your worst travel moment? crashing my ATV and injuring myself on said Hawaiian honeymoon
3. What's your fantasy trip? A couple weeks in Europe with my hubby. More short term, I want to go to Ireland a year from now for the ND game. My college roommates are going with their hubbys. Still trying to convince mine.
4. Matching luggage or not? No
5. Driver or passenger? passenger
6. White knuckle or relaxed? a bit of both
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? Alaskan cruise with the two kids, walking on the glacier with them, riding in the helicopter, seeing the bears and whales, shivering outside while we watched chunks of ice fall into the water... great memories!
2. What's your worst travel moment? VERY small plane, 3 year old and 6 month old, both crying and hungry, airplane seemed 110 degrees, EXhusband (now) said "Can't you keep them quiet? and whipped out a newspaper to read...
3. What's your fantasy trip? Australia and New Zealand
4. Matching luggage or not? Luggage is luggage, size is what's important : )
5. Driver or passenger? Driver, definitely
6. White knuckle or relaxed? In a car, only if I'm the passenger, on an airplane relaxed unless there is some significant turbulence
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? 3 months in Europe while in high school - LOVE the Mediterranean coast!
2. What's your worst travel moment? being stuck in the St.Louis airport for 6 hours because of a huge thunderstorm (there was water pouring in from a light fixture) and I was flying with my dog (in a shoulder carrier) and he was not happy.... NOT FUN!
3. What's your fantasy trip? Ireland
4. Matching luggage or not? ya right....
5. Driver or passenger? either
6. White knuckle or relaxed? relaxed
 
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1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?
Every year, we head to the lake and hang out in the cabin and do touristy stuff--my whole side of the family plus husband and kids.
2. What's your worst travel moment?
Being around my entire family for 72+ hours straight and not being able to hit my sister in the head with a duck and push her in the lake.
3. What's your fantasy trip?
Taking off and spending months on end in Ireland <3
4. Matching luggage or not?
If Wal-Mart bags count as matching luggage :giggle (no one can ever find anything when it's time to pack, so, with 5 minutes to spare it's "Just throw the crap in a freaking Wal-Mart bag and put in the car and let's go already!"
5. Driver or passenger?
Passenger. I have too many anxiety issues to be the driver.
6. White knuckle or relaxed?
White knuckle. See question 5.
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? - My four and a half weeks spent in Spain. I lived with a family in Toledo. Traveled to various parts of the country. Loved it... after I got over the culture shock and learned the language :giggle
2. What's your worst travel moment? - flying to hawaii, i was stuck in the middle of the middle next to a little girl who spilled her coke all over me and then got her gum stuck in my hair. no fun.
3. What's your fantasy trip? - back to spain with hubby, no kids. maybe travle to a few other parts of europe while we're there. of course, this would take a good month or more to be done properly... but you said FANTASY!!
4. Matching luggage or not? - Don't really care as long as my stuff gets there.
5. Driver or passenger? - either is fine.
6. White knuckle or relaxed? - relaxed, definitely.
 
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1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? Sydney, Australia when I was 20 with my friend Rachel. We only had to buy out tickets and bring spending money because we stayed with a friends family and the fed us the whole time. It was probably one of the first really "adult" things that I did on my own. We drank, we gambled, we got tattoos...and we were all under 21...it was great.
2. What's your worst travel moment? I'll spare you the novel lol....almost every trip to Washington while we lived in Germany was a nightmare. But the worst and longest would be the trip we flew Space A...if you're military and have flown Space A you probably know what I am talking about.
3. What's your fantasy trip? Ever since I saw this episode of House Hunters International I have been obsessed with going to Fiji and staying in one of the places that has the doors that open all the way so you basically have this open aired space.
4. Matching luggage or not? Ours matches but only because we needed new luggage when we moved back to the states and it's all they had at the PX.
5. Driver or passenger? Both...but Geoff likes to drive so I am usually the passenger.
6. White knuckle or relaxed? It really depends....if it's just me and the kids I am pretty white knuckled...if I have help then it's more relaxed.
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?

I'm hoping it's going to be in December for our holidays trip to the US Virgin Islands. We're taking a sailboat (quite large one) to island hop.

2. What's your worst travel moment?

hate flying so just dealing with airports

3. What's your fantasy trip?

Hawaii no kids

4. Matching luggage or not?

could care less

5. Driver or passenger?

passenger

6. White knuckle or relaxed?

a little bit of both, but mainly relaxed
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?
A trip to Vancouver Island to my husband's parents house for Canadian Thanksgiving and then a drive south to do some sightseeing in Victoria. It was a really good week.
2. What's your worst travel moment?
While on a theatre tour we were trying to get to show in Kamloops British Columbia. We were driving from Tacoma Washington and it was the Wed before US Thanksgiving so the traffic heading north out of Seattle was horrendous and the processing of work documents at the border took close to forever (9 people total I think). We got caught in a huge snowstorm and stuck under an avalanche shelter for about 3 hours...they got the road behind us cleared and we drove back to Hope...we managed to find a hotel where a kindly janitor gave us rooms (no 24 hour anything there..lol) and I spent the next three hours on the phone with my east coast contact while flipping between the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and the local news on TV. After deciding we were going to be able to make the show... me with no sleep, and a cast and crew with about 2 hours of sleep headed in to Kamloops to get to the hotel in time to shower and book it to the place where we had to set up, do three shows, and tear down. Needless to say we all slept well that night.
3. What's your fantasy trip?
I'd love to go to Greece...or a BC Rail trip through the Candian Rockies.
4. Matching luggage or not?
Yeah but it's 10 years old and a gift from my inlaws...most of the time we just travel with the smallest suitcase from the set and another small bag though.
5. Driver or passenger? Passenger
6. White knuckle or relaxed? White Knuckled...DH scares me when he drives.
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? Our belated honeymoon to an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
2. What's your worst travel moment? In my 20-somethings, flight into Dallas, then small (very small!) plane into Armarillo, then renting a car and driving up to Borger to meet with Phillips petroleum and seeing "Warning: Do not pick up hitchhikers in this area - maximum security prison nearby" signs everywhere (just how many prison breakouts do they get at this place?)
3. What's your fantasy trip? Hawaii or Fiji with the whole family
4. Matching luggage or not? Whatever we can borrow!
5. Driver or passenger? Passenger
6. White knuckle or relaxed? A bit of both
 
ooo, we love traveling! And so fun to hear about others' vacays!
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken?
That's a tough one. I think it'd have to be when dh and I (he was my bf at the time) traveled to the Mosquito coast of Honduras after spending a year teaching in Honduras. It was an amazing adventure to a place few people see - I felt like I was in National Geographic
2. What's your worst travel moment?
Flying home from Venezuela one time. This was our last trip home as we were ending our 3 year teaching career there, so we had 8 suitcases between the two of us - everything we owned! I had a bad case of bronchitis (although I didn't know what I had at the time) and was feverish and achy and had the chills and was going dillusional I think. I just remember sitting on the floor by the baggage claim in Miami and thinking, "I just need to get home!" It was awful. Thankfully hubby was able to man all the luggage on his own while I slowly plodded behind him.
3. What's your fantasy trip?
Italy. Definitely. It'd have to be a couple of months I think!
4. Matching luggage or not?
I don't care, as long as it gets there in one piece!
5. Driver or passenger?
 driver
6. White knuckle or relaxed?
white knuckled if I'm flying. I just keep thinking the plane is going to plummet to the ground!
 
1. What is the best trip or vacation you've taken? We've had some good ones, but probably cruising Alaska.
2. What's your worst travel moment? Flying across Bass Strait in a small plane. It was my second time flying and it was aweful.
3. What's your fantasy trip? Cruising South America from east coast to west
4. Matching luggage or not? not, but it would be nice
5. Driver or passenger? passenger
6. White knuckle or relaxed? probably more on the white knuckle side, I am a bit of a worrier
 
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