Not necessarily a lame trip with boring people, but my parents and I just have fundamentally different ideas about vacations. My parents are beach people: they can sit on the beach for a full day. After an hour, max two, I am done. When I lived in LA, I flew down to Mexico to meet them at a conference they were attending. While I'm sure they would have preferred to spend their one non-lecture day on the beach, I made them go to Tulum instead. We were going to go SOMEWHERE and be EDUCATED and not just SIT ON THE BEACH ALL DAY.
Follow up: when I met my parents in Las Vegas (similar circumstances as the above) I made them go to Lake Mead for a day, too. My reasoning: literally when else are you going to go to Lake Mead and see the Hoover Dam? There might have been some grumbling about wanting to see more hotels and not go to a dam but I WAS NOT TO BE DETERRED.
Thankfully I can't think of any lame trip I took with boring people!
Re Kristin Hannah—I recommend The Nightingale and The Women, but not The Four Winds (historic setting was well done, but melodramatic characters came across like a Hallmark TV special).
OMG... I love Sarah Vowell! And I've skipped over the "have" part and went straight to the command "read her last six books in order, from THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT to LAFAYETTE IN THE SOMEWHAT UNITED STATES" I'm on it!!
And my heart aches for what you missed in Honolulu while shopping for pearls (fer god's sake!) You should have been kicking back with that guava juice, sand between the toes with another Sarah Vowell book on your lap, eh? (I grew up on Oahu, and yes, Obama gets Hawaii, right down to the shave ice in Kailua. Please do go, and get out to the North Shore coming into town only to go to the Bishop Museum, or whatever. Small doses, you'll love it.)
My parents once took us to Phoenix IN AUGUST. They got a deal on a Hilton with a waterslide and just figured we'd be entertained by that for 4 days...yeah, no
I’m like this too with authors! Isn’t fun to “watch” their evolution. :)
Not necessarily a lame trip with boring people, but my parents and I just have fundamentally different ideas about vacations. My parents are beach people: they can sit on the beach for a full day. After an hour, max two, I am done. When I lived in LA, I flew down to Mexico to meet them at a conference they were attending. While I'm sure they would have preferred to spend their one non-lecture day on the beach, I made them go to Tulum instead. We were going to go SOMEWHERE and be EDUCATED and not just SIT ON THE BEACH ALL DAY.
Follow up: when I met my parents in Las Vegas (similar circumstances as the above) I made them go to Lake Mead for a day, too. My reasoning: literally when else are you going to go to Lake Mead and see the Hoover Dam? There might have been some grumbling about wanting to see more hotels and not go to a dam but I WAS NOT TO BE DETERRED.
Never be deterred!!! I can be on a beach all day IF I'm paddleboarding, swimming or snokeling :)
Thankfully I can't think of any lame trip I took with boring people!
Re Kristin Hannah—I recommend The Nightingale and The Women, but not The Four Winds (historic setting was well done, but melodramatic characters came across like a Hallmark TV special).
Yeah, Mystic Lake was VERY melodramatic. I was hoping that would dissapate in her later novels. Hmmm.
And good job escaping boring vacations with lame people :)
OMG... I love Sarah Vowell! And I've skipped over the "have" part and went straight to the command "read her last six books in order, from THE PARTLY CLOUDY PATRIOT to LAFAYETTE IN THE SOMEWHAT UNITED STATES" I'm on it!!
And my heart aches for what you missed in Honolulu while shopping for pearls (fer god's sake!) You should have been kicking back with that guava juice, sand between the toes with another Sarah Vowell book on your lap, eh? (I grew up on Oahu, and yes, Obama gets Hawaii, right down to the shave ice in Kailua. Please do go, and get out to the North Shore coming into town only to go to the Bishop Museum, or whatever. Small doses, you'll love it.)
Oh, no need for your heart to ache! I'm sure I'll get back to Hawaii someday...and I'll be sure to check out the Bishop Museum :)
My parents once took us to Phoenix IN AUGUST. They got a deal on a Hilton with a waterslide and just figured we'd be entertained by that for 4 days...yeah, no