OT - Spring Break/Get-Away Plans and Favorite Memory
Mates,
It's that time of the year when many are either on the road or preparing to depart for some type of spring break, pursuit of warmth, flight to sunshine, escape from snow, etc.
So the questions are: What are your spring break plans, assuming you are taking one, where are you going and whose going with you?
What and where was your best all-time spring break memory?
XM
When I was there, it was later in the year. But they had so many suicides that they moved it up earlier in the year to get kids out.
March 26th, 2017 at 11:02 PM ^
Went to Jacksonville FL a week ago for my trip (my family lives there). A little too chily, but beats the midwest!
March 26th, 2017 at 11:13 PM ^
...definitely go. September or October is better than March.
March 26th, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
March 27th, 2017 at 10:08 AM ^
...for imagining body shots with your habitat colleagues...
March 26th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
Best was Bahamas trip 2001. Only a few schools were out - us, WMU, a couple small East Coast schools. Some debauchery but mostly sunburns. Good times. Beautiful place.
March 26th, 2017 at 11:42 PM ^
Honeymoon to Costa Rica in April. We're doing eco-tourism--volunteering at an animal sanctuary while staying at a resort on a cliff overlooking the ocean
Wedding in May in Charleston
Moving to San Diego to start Residency in June
Very busy couple of months.
March 27th, 2017 at 12:08 AM ^
San Diego residency. Congrats!
March 27th, 2017 at 12:29 AM ^
or whatever taistreets says for a great thing. very busy couple of months, indeed.
props also for your going to san diego. i don't miss socal, but i will say if i had to go back, that would be the place.
March 27th, 2017 at 12:19 AM ^
March 27th, 2017 at 12:43 AM ^
please have the paperwork drawn up and we'll all sign off on that.
p.s. did you fly your plane, or let somebody else fly you?
March 27th, 2017 at 10:28 AM ^
March 27th, 2017 at 11:42 AM ^
very nice.
Spring break these days is just another week when a more than normal amount of my clients are out of town. But back in my college days, about 30 of us fraternity brothers went to Acapulco. Good times.
Fairly certain only women can be Cougar's jerry.
I think he's implying a sex change.
fresh out of school so no spring break, but got a long weekend off from work for easter. gonna take a few vacation days as well and head down to Florida. Gonna be a warm-up for trip to cancun for a wedding in May. really looking forward to getting away from Michigan for a little bit.
I've been debating on going to europe (Italy) and after reading this thread i am going to book it. Now i have to decide if i should do a cruise or backpack. Anyone have suggestions?
Went to Rome - Florence - Venice via train. It was awesome.
Also rented a car in Florence and visited Sienna, and rented a car in Rome and visited Valmontone where my grandparents were from. Driving is pretty easy there.
My family is going in different directions. My 14 year old going to Gettysburg and DC with school trip. Wife and senior in HS going to Ft Myers and they are taking my daughter's freind and my 11 year old. This left me home alone to work and pay for their trips. After thinking about it, I aske a buddy to see if he could put together a trip. So we are doing 2 full days offshore and a half day of nearshore. 3 long weeks away. It is a leave Monday come home Friday trip.
what do you catch out there? also, when you are nearshore at least, please tell me you'll be using a fly rod.
March 27th, 2017 at 10:57 AM ^
I have never done fly fishing. I have seen video of them fishing with fly and open faced. I am interested in trying fly fishing.
March 27th, 2017 at 11:44 AM ^
we did it at my bachelor party. you can also do what we call 'fly line', which is more common. i see you had a killing on the billfish downthread in costa rica. have heard about fishing there before. that would be way fun.
enjoy your trip.
March 27th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
March 27th, 2017 at 11:00 AM ^
Can't get here soon enough. We have fished out of Tarpon Springs, Miami, and Los Suenos Costsa Rica. Costa Rica was crazy. We caught 56 sails, 3 marlin and 2 dorado in 3 days. Gunsmoke was the name of the boat if you go.
March 27th, 2017 at 10:29 PM ^
Going to LA and San Diego with the wife and kids for a week. I've been there a bunch of times, but never with the family. Going to do all the touristy stuff.
No Spring Break over here in Switzerland, but just before Easter, I will be traveling to Mexico to get married. Honeymoon is planned for a week in Cancun just after the wedding.
Best spring break memory was when my roommate asked our female neighbors (also friends) on a Wednesday night if we could join them on their road trip to Panama City Beach that Friday. Two days before and no hotel reservations, we were going to crash on their floor. The hotel screwed up their reservation by giving them a smaller room than they had requested. For compensation, they gave them another small room! We ended up with our own room and partied for 5 straight days with minimal sleep!
Now I can't even party for a weekend without needing another week to recover!
March 27th, 2017 at 10:17 AM ^
We were debating driving all the way to Mexico to surprise our friends, but we figured we needed a 4th person to pull that off and couldn't convince anyone. So the 3 of us headed to South Beach. Back then Michigan's spring break was a week earlier than almost everyone's so it was light on tons of college kids. It was still a blast and we still were able to meet up with girls every night. It was a random trip on when we could get into bars as two of us were only 20. I think we only struck out one night and ended up drinking on the board walk and meeting some Canadian Boy band guys who had some amazing ladies with them. Lots of stories and great memories from the trip.
Random last minute trips with your friends some how end up the best. When we had a bigger group and better planning the next year, it just wasn't the same.
March 27th, 2017 at 11:42 AM ^
Random last minute trips with your friends some how end up the best
Ah yes, the joys of being a young college student.
My brother and two of his friends decided to go to Florida for spring break on a last minute whim. They drove from Penn State straight to Miami - no overnight stop - in a Mazda RX7 with 3 guys. An RX7 is a 2-seater. One of the guys had to lay in the hatch the whole trip.
They could not have cared less.
March 27th, 2017 at 10:27 AM ^
No big plans for spring break for us this year as we did Disney in January.
We might try to head up to TC sometime next week if the weather isn't terrible.
March 27th, 2017 at 10:29 AM ^
March 27th, 2017 at 11:14 AM ^
Wow, memories is right.
In college, 9 of us went down to florida in one pickup truck with a cover. It was fucking freezing. We threw like 4 mattresses in the back. 3 in the cab - 6 in the back. Did I mention is was freezing? Roads were super icy on the way back - I'm so glad to be alive. The guy that owned the truck drove like Mario Andretti taking his wife to the hospital to deliver their first baby.
We rented one room. By the second day, the bathtub took 3 hours to drain. By the last day, I'm not sure it would ever drain again. Guys were taking a bar of soap to the ocean. People just slept wherever there wasn't a body. Guys were having sex with women they'd just met on the tiny balcony because there was no room inside.
I would never, EVER recommend doing such a thing, but boy do we laugh about a lot of the things that happened when we all get together.
March 27th, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
I've been there and I would strongly recommend it.
You'll never be able to do that kind of stupid shit again the rest of your life.
Psst.
I recommend it too, but I'm a dad now and I have to at least feign adulthood.
March 27th, 2017 at 11:59 AM ^
Never had the cash in my younger days to head down to FL or go someplace warm, but junior year @ U of M I did habitat for humanity and we helped build a house for a week in Yonkers, NY.
While it wasn't the most glamorous trip, I left with crushes on two of the girls that went on the trip, a few new friends & lot of laughes and a bunch of good memories, all the while feeling pretty good about helping others.
A group of 3 friends and I decided to go during fall of senior year. We were part of a larger group of Michigan students (about 60) which had a mix of people we kind of knew from classes, mutual friends, etc. It was a fantastic week, what almost made it better is that there was also a group of about 150 kids from Michigan State. After we got through the usual rivalry talk etc (it was the week Hoops won the B1G title so there was plenty of shit talking.) We all kind of bonded and partied for the 6 days we were there. Wouldn't trade that week for anything in the world. What made it even more hilarious is this TripAdvisor review, while overboard, made BroBible the week after break and only painted MSU students in a horrible light lol.