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Springtime Day Trips | Pad Patter 04.29.23

ArmyGrl

ArmyGrl

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It is incredibly gorgeous in my neck of the woods. Last week and this week, there is a slight overcast with the sun peaking through on occasion. This is keeping it pleasantly cool. That combined with the spring blooms and budding trees - I feel alive and ready to see the world!

My favorite local places to visit this time of the year are the Missouri Botanical Gardens, the Art Museum, and Zoo.

How about you? What are your favorite springtime day trips?
 
Well we are more "summer" here in the Phoenix area at this point :D but we love going to the mountains, Sedona and to the arboretum when we have a chance.
 
it's been a slightly cooler than usual spring, but we have been to a couple of places and hoping to do more... this time of year I love doing day trips to lake Como or lake Maggiore (about an hour's drive) to see the Italian villas: Villa Taranto, Palavicino, Balbianello, Carlotta, Borromeo islands, and such. Walking up the mountains is also on our list. Next weekend if the weather is nice we take a bunch of people to see the wild garlic flowering on Mount San Giorgio. I would also love to see the Villa Monastero and Castel Vezio with the same bunch, we luckily have a 7 seater car, so take the lovely Ukrainian ladies (local refugees) to see something outside their temporary flats and bureaucratic offices.
 
A trip to the sugar bush (late winter-early spring), which admittedly I haven't done in years. In May: Dow's Lake and the Rideau Canal for the Ottawa Tulip Festival. I also love to visit my mother's hometown of Perth, Ontario (only an hour away), which has some lovely (and solid!) old stone buildings built by the Scottish stonemasons who immigrated to the area in the early- to mid-19th century.

I really should do more local day trips. It's easy to overlook local attractions, you just sort of take them for granted.
 
The tulips are at their colorful best in a day trip just north of Seattle.

ps. I love the Missouri botanical gardens

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It's been warming up slowly this week here too- 80° today! That's pretty hot for our normal spring, so I imagine it'll cool down, but our favorite place to cool of is Lake Coeur d'Alene. My inlaws have a house on the lake about 30 mins from our house- so it's an easy drive for just a day or even the weekend. We can't stay as kids have activities tomorrow, but it'll be fun for this afternoon-evening!
 
We have so many fantastic state parks and places close by to visit and hike. My favorites are the New River Gorge Bridge (third highest in the US and, until the early 2000s, it was the world's longest single-span arch bridge) and the Cascades waterfall...
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dawnmarch said:
Well we are more "summer" here in the Phoenix area at this point :D but we love going to the mountains, Sedona and to the arboretum when we have a chance.
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Summer! Ha! Thats something else. Oooo---I love arboretums. I need to see if I have one in driving distance.
 
zinzilah said:
it's been a slightly cooler than usual spring, but we have been to a couple of places and hoping to do more... this time of year I love doing day trips to lake Como or lake Maggiore (about an hour's drive) to see the Italian villas: Villa Taranto, Palavicino, Balbianello, Carlotta, Borromeo islands, and such. Walking up the mountains is also on our list. Next weekend if the weather is nice we take a bunch of people to see the wild garlic flowering on Mount San Giorgio. I would also love to see the Villa Monastero and Castel Vezio with the same bunch, we luckily have a 7 seater car, so take the lovely Ukrainian ladies (local refugees) to see something outside their temporary flats and bureaucratic offices.
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Now that sounds super lovely - especially seeing the Villas! Hmmm...I think I have a new edition to my bucket list.
 
Me and the hubby are planning a day trip to Rochester MN... this coming week. It's about an hour drive give or take from us.we just like the different stores they have there and of course restaurants too. Gets us out of the house

Otherwise .. me and Bianca been taking the dogs to the dog park a lot since the westhers been nicer.

No other trips planned yet.. but my birthday is in June and we are planning a weekend get away to Minneapolis area ..for some fogo de Chao ..which I'm super excited about
 
Today we took advantage of the nice weather and explored the City of Rocks - a National Reserve in our state of Idaho that we had never been to before.
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ArmyGrl said:
Now that sounds super lovely - especially seeing the Villas! Hmmm...I think I have a new edition to my bucket list.
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come over our way Lisa, we are on the Swiss Italian border, about an hour away from Milan, and the same distance from Malpensa airport, and all the beautiful villas about the same time away from home to see! I will show you around.
 
@tiffany scraps Thats a great photo!! Those gorgeous blue skies! And I'm a rock lover. I'd be looking on the ground to see what I could stuff in my pockets and take home :giggle
 
zinzilah said:
come over our way Lisa, we are on the Swiss Italian border, about an hour away from Milan, and the same distance from Malpensa airport, and all the beautiful villas about the same time away from home to see! I will show you around.
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:beat:beat:beat Its on the bucket list...now just have save $$
 
My sister and her husband (retired) are slowly visiting all of Virginia's state parks. They've also road tripped to the Great Smoky Mountains, and in January like to drive down to Florida visiting parks/tourist attractions, then make their way back to Northern Virginia. Each trip takes them about 2 weeks.
 
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zinzilah - can you see any of these growing wild? Narcissus poeticus. https://www.facebook.com/theinsomni...eticus-or-the-poets-daffodil/405401004063393/
They (almost) all have white petals and a red rimmed eye. Semi-fragrant. I've always wanted to see them, and the area you describe, Swiss-Italian border, is where they're supposed to be growing wild. All around there actually. I breed miniatures of the N. poeticus hellenicus.
 
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