Vacation destination poll?

Consider San Diego. It's awesome.

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http://www.sandiego.org/nav/Visitors

Mission and Pacific Beach are your best bet for fun in the sun.

http://www.missionbeachonline.com/

Some must see attractions are the world famous Zoo, Sea World, and Balboa Park. You can get a park passport which allows you entry to a dozen museums as well as the zoo.

http://www.balboapark.org/info/passport.php

North County San Diego is home to the Zoo's Wild Animal Park. There are multi acre enclosures where herds of wild animals roam plus lots of hiking trails.

http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wap/index.html

La Jolla offers great views, great food, and shopping.

Check out the surfers at historic Winansea Beach. At low tide you can walk out onto the tide pools. Walk along the Cove and check out the caves. Take a stroll on Prospect St and check out the shops, galleries, and have some authentic Mexican food and Alfonso's. Then head to the Birch aquarium at The Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It has a spectacular view of the bluffs over the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.lajolla.com/Templates/tmpHome.aspx?page...

http://www.alfonsosoflajolla.com/

http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/

For nightlife, the Gaslamp Quarter offers dining, drinking and dancing. It's also the home of Petco Park and the San Diego Padres major league baseball team.

http://www.gaslamp.org/

The Old Point Loma Lighthouse at the Cabrillo National Monument offers great views of the dowtown skyline, San Diego Harbor and the Pacific Ocean. On a clear day you can see all the way to Mexico.

http://www.nps.gov/cabr/

Well, if you're considering the Chesapeake Bay area in general, you'll have a number of different areas to explore, so that might be a good idea. The places *are* spread out, but in the vicinity you do have:

1) Tangier Island, VA

(Actually has some residents who retain a British accent hundreds of years after Brits colonized America. The websites tell you there are other things to do on the island though besides to sit there and observe people.

http://www.tangierisland-va.com/

http://www.tangierhistorymuseum.org/)

2) Norfolk

3) Virginia Beach

4) Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel

5) Ocean City, MD

6) Annapolis

7) Baltimore

8) Havre de Grace, up near the Susquehanna River.

The first place might make the trip worth it for all I'm concerned. Meanwhile, DC and Philadelphia aren't too far away from the Chesapeake Bay: a relatively short drive depending on where exactly you are.

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Meanwhile, if you mention "California" as a place you'd like to visit, then you should do just that: visit California, not just NorCal, not just SoCal, but the whole thing. NorCal is nice for reasons someone already mentioned. But if you go to SoCal you could spend some time in desert campground areas like Joshua Tree and Rainbow Basin; desert towns like Palm Springs and Hesperia (wintertime is best, when the clouds hang at the base of the San Bernardino Mtns.); mountain towns such as Big Bear and Wrightwood; Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley, LA County, Orange County, San Diego; and further north, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Central Coast.

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A trip to Las Vegas may or may not be worth it. But if you get tired of the Vegas area while you're there, you may want to hop in your car and head for Lake Mead, Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, AZ or even SoCal. You'll be on the road for a while, but that's okay: road trips can be fun.

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Finally, someone mentioned Chicago and NYC as far as urban areas go; this was the right thing to do. If you are into urban exploration, you'll never really run out of things to see and photograph if you go walking, biking, or skating around NYC to see what you can see. And this is because there's just a ton of stuff all packed into Manhattan Island and the surrounding areas.

Of course, New York City also has its museums, zoos, botanical gardens and beaches in addition to architectural curiosities and such; so NYC is a good option as far as vacation spots go.

My wife and I traveled the entire U.S. a section at a time. Each state has something to offer in activities or site seeing. If traveling by car, I wouldn't plan to stay in one place for the entire vacation unless it offers exactly what you enjoy. I would visit a few different areas. Pick a geographic section and explore. Stay in each part as long as you enjoy it, then move on. If you are anything like me it will become a vacation habit. Which is how we ended up seeing the U.S.

Get on line and pick a few states close to one another and look up what each has to offer. Mark them on a road map so you can play "connect -the-dots". Visit half going away from home and the second half returning. The driving becomes minimal when you travel this way.

If time and distance becomes a problem, then you have no choice but to pick a spot and fly. Renting a car upon landing is a second option to seeing an area far from home with limited time.

Best Wishes - stay safe and enjoy

Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri is full of fun with Miniature golf courses, Bridal cave, Jacob’s Cave, horseback riding, Ha Ha Tonka State Park w/ castle ruins, go-kart tracks, arcades, a water park and family fun parks.

The fun doesn't stop there however! Visit the Historic Bagnell Dam Strip in Lake Ozark; this mile long stretch is full of arcades, batting cages, rides, parasailing, rocket launcher, haunted hotel, mazes, cruises, ice cream shops, restaurants and Ozark gift shops.

And don’t forget the wonderful restaurants, bars, night clubs, the Outlet Mall in Osage Beach, unique shops, the site seeing, swimming, fishing, boating, and RELAXING!

At some point you gotta sleep, so come stay at our Nautical Nest!

That sounds like fun I would want to go to a Broadway Play! I think going home to mom and dads is always special but I think the best was going on a cruise with my son and his wife! The best part was scuba diving with my son out in the gulf of Mexico and seeing all the amazing sea creatures and how beautiful the are up close so colorful and the thrill and terror of maybe seeing a shark or a whale.

I suggest Northern California -- San Francisco, beautiful national parks, wine country and incredible coastal drives.

Yellowstone National Park is really awesome, if you're into outdoors and wildlife. And the Tetons, which is right next door.

If you're more urban, Chicago and NYC are nice.

You should go to Myrtle Beach, SC