(with thanks to Leanne1986) Your favorite vacation spot and why?

San Diego. So laid back and beautiful.

@Jude I loved San Diego! My favourite holiday destination is the Scottish highlands (Loch Ness mostly) followed by an American roadtrip!

Anywhere outside the U.S. It’s all so different: cheaper alcohol, more laid back environment, in some places, nicer people, clean beaches and ocean water etc. I’ve been to the Bahamas and St. Maarten, and I liked St. Maarten better. But I feel like the best place would be Ibiza.

I like off the beaten path destinations that expose me to lots of nature.
I loved Toroko park in Taiwan last year, headhunter territory and lots of jungle snakes to watch out for. It was great! lol

@Coloma If you can manage it, try a safari in Kenya. Or, I hear, Costa Rica. Or Madagascar. I’d like to see the latter two, myself.

@Sunny2

Oh yes..Madagascar and I almost bought a bungalow in Costa Rica a few years ago! Happy traveling! :-)

I want to take a river trip in Vietnam, down the Mekong. :-)

I love an island—just about anywhere.

Palm Springs. If you love to eat, shop or hike, and look at architecture, or people watch, this is the place for you.

The best time to go is in springtime. That way, it’s sunny and warm in town, and there will still be snow on top of Mt. San Jacinto. So you can spend one day eating and shopping and hiking the nearby Trails or going to the Art Museum or visiting the nearby Living Desert and Botanical Garden, or you might even want to go a little further out and camp at Joshua Tree

In town my favorite restaurants are Elmer’s for breakfast, El Mirasol for the fantastic Mexican food and plentiful vegetarian options, and Zin for dinner.

The next day, you can take the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and hike in the snow. They have 2 restaurants at the Mountain Station. It’s a real thrill to descend the mountain on the tram at night, so you can see all of the sparkly lights of the city of Palm Springs come into view over the last crest.

Palm Springs is known for it’s embrace of Mid Century architecture and artwork and furniture. You can buy stuff or even stay at a Mid Century hotel. Check out this Mid Century Palm Springs Site Palm Springs is also known as being one of the playgrounds for Hollywood movie stars starting in the 20’s and going strong through the 50’s. There’s lots of Art Deco architecture mixed in with the Mid Century stuff.

And for those architecture buffs and fans of Elvis Presley, you can take a home tour of Elvis and Priscilla’s Honeymoon Hideaway

And if you like to gamble, there’s the nearby Morongo Casino in Cabazon, which is right next to the Cabazon Dinosaurs as well as a big outlet mall and Hadley’s if you want to stock up on fruits, nuts, candy and specialty food items, and don’t miss their date shakes!

And last, but not least, in addition to all of the other wonderful photo opportunities in and around and above Palm Springs, don’t miss the Wind Mills or the Statue of Sonny Bono (Former Mayor of Palm Springs)

You could easily spend a week in Palm Springs and the surrounding areas, but a long weekend is still a real treat. I really should be the spokeswoman for this town! LOL

Sharm el Sheikh. Had leave there. The most beautiful place on earth.

Any place is fine as long as I’m either alone or with the few that I care about, which is NOT family.