vacation dorkery...

[keryx]

Because we are indecisive, missmeridian and I request your consultation on our itinerary for the first annual August Bank Holiday (TM), which in future will not in fact occur in August, excursion. We're travelling August 4-7.

[Poll #535305]
After exhaustive analysis, we still had three places that we were all "woo hoo! let's go right now!" about. Help us narrow!

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[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

i'm going to xpost this chez moi

[keryx.livejournal.com]

excellent. however, i am a little slow sometimes and can never remember how to see poll results without voting. thus my "somewhere else" vote.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Seattle good.

[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

pdxstraycat raised the point of portland, oregon, where, as you may recall, and what up with all the commas in this sentence, already, my uncle's awesome erotica shop lives:

"Portland, OR. It has the largest independent bookstore in the world (Powell's), the largest urban park in the U.S. (Forest Park), a huge rose garden connected to a Japanese garden and connected via miniature train to a pretty nice zoo, and of course the McMenamins series of pubs. St. Helens is an hour away, and Seattle is a short 3 hours, which makes it a nice day trip. You can also go to the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, which is where they filmed the exterior shots for The Shining (except it doesn't have the hedge maze). But Portland is not as city as SF or Seattle, though it does have a few good clubs."

cause we weren't already indecisive enough...

[keryx.livejournal.com]

No new ideas! Hard enough to pick from list of three! Gah.

Portland goes on 2006 August Bank Holiday list, I think.

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[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

ok - but i really do want to see his bookstore at some point, which i'll never be able to do with my actual family, because apparently i am 12, and retro gay french prints from the 1920s are totally inappropiate for me. puh-leez.

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[keryx.livejournal.com]

well, we could potentially do seattle, but a daytrip/roadtrip to his bookstore. i'd be open to that.

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[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

ooh - and if we waited to do seattle for ABH '06 sos we could see rackltang too, then she and z and jess and we could all roadtrip down for erotica roadtrip. that's pretty awesome.

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[keryx.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's a supersmart idea. If it's early June, odds would be the kids'd still be there. I think they gradumate next year.

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[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

ok, then i think we've just locked ABH '06 into seattle. so now it's san francisco v. key west, right?

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[keryx.livejournal.com]

I guess so. I've been made aware that there is decent beachiness in the SF environs, while there is no exciting city fun in Key West. Which could influence us.

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[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

looking at the wx and dewpoints for the next week, i'm inclined toward san francisco.

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[keryx.livejournal.com]

and so is our poll - although key west is seeing an uptick - maybe it will score some sort of come-from-behind finish. :)

do we want to go ahead and start booking this trip, or contemplate further?

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[missmeridian.livejournal.com]

and, you did ask for "somewhere else explained in comments." :P

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[keryx.livejournal.com]

nitpicker. ;P