Everyday Randomness

Visiting Australia?

Canceling our trip to Pigeon Forge this weekend really has me bummed out. Hubby said we can reschedule the trip for next weekend, but it’s still just not the same. We haven’t been on a real vacation in about 2 years, and I’ve never been out of the country. I just really want to go somewhere super awesome!

I’ve got a list of places all around the world I want to visit, but I’d love to go to Australia. I watched a show on the travel channel that showcased a bunch of big tourist places in Australia as well as some nice spots that aren’t really known to a lot of tourists. I would totally love to go see those places.

Who knows, I might even be able to meet up with a few of my Australian blogging buddies for a real tour of all of their favorite spots. No matter where I go I love hanging out with the locals because they show you the real life part of the area instead of just the big tourists spots most people see. Yep I think seeing my blogging friends would be the one thing I would prefer to do over anything! I’ve met a ton of great friends from all over the world through blogging, and I’ve become really close with a good many of them.

You don’t know how tempted I am right now to price a flight to Australia, but hubby would probably say no we can’t afford it, especially if we’re going to Disney this summer.

Vacation Itch

Oh yeah now I remember where I was going with that last post.  Part of our trip this weekend was going to Deal’s Gap, but when we found out that probably won’t happen we decided we’d go ahead and spend the weekend in Pigeon Forge like we’d planned.  It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen either.

Our friend’s parents own a cabin in Pigeon Forge, and they always let us use it, so hubby called and asked our friend’s dad if we could use it.  He said yep, no problem.  Well, turns out our friend’s mom already promised it to a couple that wanted to spend their anniversary in the mountains.  No big deal.  I’d rather them enjoy their anniversary, and we really can’t afford a hotel this weekend.

If I’d known this on Friday I could have planned ahead, but I didn’t, so I took all the extra cash we had this week plus a majority of our savings and dropped it on bills.  I paid a bunch of a month in advance, knocked out a nice chunk on medical bills, and made double payments for both the bike and car payments.

I’d still love to be able to go somewhere this weekend though.  I’m really seriously itching for a vacation.   I called my friend Tony Mac to see if this would be a good weekend for a trip to Tampa, but he’s off somewhere at an undisclosed location for the military this week.  It’s really hard to keep track of where he is and isn’t.  I worry about him too much.  I always know he’s got to be somewhere at least semi safe if he can still check his answering machine messages and return my calls!  He just can’t tell me where he is.

Oh well maybe I can at least convince hubby to pack up the tent and go camping somewhere.  It’s supposed to be pretty nice here on Saturday and Sunday, so maybe I can convince him to go camping at the little county park that’s on the lake one county over.

We’ve got county parks surrounding us on the lake, but none of them are as secluded or as gorgeous as the one I want to go to.  We went there with hubby’s parents on a bike ride for the first time last weekend, and now I basically am set on the fact that we have to camp there.  It’s far enough away to enjoy camping on the lake and close enough to home to take a real shower! lol

I Really Wanted To Go

I seriously doubt we’ll be making our trip to Deal’s Gap this weekend.  I’ve been watching the weather almost religiously all week hoping that by some miracle the weather man would suddenly decide there won’t be rain this Friday for the area, but the more I check the worse the weather looks.

Dang it!  I REALLY wanted to go to the Gap this weekend!  The last time we went up there was around July or August.  Dang I can’t even remember anymore.  Wait, it would have either been the end of July because Hubby had his wreck in August.  We had gone to the Gap a couple weeks before.  We almost had a crash that day…both of us…riding 2 up, but we were able to save it because we were slowed down behind a line of slower traffic.  THANK GOD.

Even worse, as we were slowly making our way back down the mountain we came up on a wreck, and it just happened to be our friend who had been riding in front of us.  He had made it around the slow pack of cars and wrecked a few curves up.  He was going way too fast and riding way outside his limits.

I know Deal’s Gap is dangerous, but then so is riding anywhere else.  The wreck we avoided was caused by a car coming over in our lane.  Sadly a lot of people in 4 wheeled vehicles don’t understand how dangerous it is to lane cross in a blind curve.  They blame the motorcycles because they say they can’t see us.  Well you know what?  NO ONE should be driving in the opposite lane in a blind curve….PERIOD.  If you can’t keep it in your lane, that should tell you to slow down!  Right?

I don’t even remember where I was going with this post anymore.  It turned into a total rant.  Sorry about that!  Oh well, maybe my sleep deprived brain will remember in a bit.

Dreaming Of A Far Away Land

Every time I pay off some of my debt I start daydreaming about traveling again. I’ve got a huge list of places I want to go before I die, but not all the places on my list are your typical vacation spots.

I’ve always wanted to take a trip to China. Why? Because I’ve always wanted to see the Great Wall of China. I have a friend who took a trip to China last year to visit a certain spa she had heard was one of the best in the world. I can’t remember the name of the place, but she showed me pictures, and the area was gorgeous. I would love to be able to do something like that!

I know we’re planning a trip to Disney in September, and that’s great an all, but I’ve never been out of the country. Taking a trip to some far away land is almost magical to me. I’m sitting here killing time by looking at Flights to China. Now I just have to get over my fear of flying!