Vacation Plans Have Almost Started

Well, I’ve started putting some more consideration towards my vacation. I told my boss that I am taking a vacation in either January or February. I’ve got a couple of bucks squirrelled away. All I need now is the destination.

Currently, the Canadian dollar is at an advantage over the American dollar. This doesn’t happen very often so it may be good to go somewhere in the US to take advantage of the mighty Loonie. And the Canadian dollar has dipped a bit next to the Euro so maybe Europe will have to wait.

So, here are the possible destinations I’ve thought of so far.

• New York City. Obviously a wonderful city. Lots of art and museums. Lots of night-time hotspots. Lots of music. But it is New York City in the winter. There is more annual snowfall in NYC than there is right in the GTA.
• Texas. Probably some of the more southern parts of the state. I’m a bit of a fickle history nut. San Antonio obviously has the Alamo. But that’s really all I know about Texas history. The Alamo. There’s millions upon millions of people in Texas. Its pretty friggin’ huge and there’s oil there. Some interesting stuff must have happened there in the past two hundred years. Beats me what that might be though. To better my inform my decision about whether or not to go to Texas, I’ve sent away for some tourism pamphlets and books and such about Texas. If there’s something in those that can help sway my decision, then off to Texas I shall go.
• Las Vegas. I’m not much of a gambler and it seems like one of those places it would be better to go with some friends. I will be traveling solo. Vegas may be a no-go for me. Besides, I need somebody to hold me back if I get shitfaced and try to marry some wrinkled and old cocktail waitress looking for a third husband to marry and divorce. (Yes, everything I know about Las Vegas I learned from watching television.)
• Washington D.C. I would love to go back to the Smithsonian and actually see the whole thing. Otherwise, I’ve done all the other touristy things there. In case your curious, President Lincoln didn’t really say anything to me when I asked him for advice. And President Jefferson didn’t seem upset at all that I went to Lincoln first.
• Cleveland – I might have to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame once in my life. But it feels like more of a summer long weekend trip to me. That way the weather’s nice and I can see an Indians game.
• New Orleans. I could go to Mardi Gras, but I’d like to think that I’m too old to just get drunk off my ass for an entire week. Besides, I’d be that guy all the college kids point at and say “Who brought the old dude?” Its not like I’m that old. I’m still on the pretty side of thirty but I’ve reached that point where I can no longer physically handle shotgunning cans of beer. I’m at that casually-drinking-Jack-Daniels-until-I-realize-half-the-bottle-is-gone-then-feeling-like-a-zombie-the-next-day age.

If anybody reading this has been to any of these places and knows something I don’t, speak up. If anybody has some good ideas for some other places, speak up louder.

Recommended Listening: No Particular Place To Go by Chuck Berry.