Show Me: Your Non-Disney Vacation Spots

[Gdad]

Just curious where everyone goes for vacation when they are not doing Disney. Here are a few of mine from the Smokey Mountains around Gatlinburg Tennessee from a few years ago. Let’s see your favorite shots from your last trip somewhere ‘else’ if it was a full blown vacation or just a weekend somewhere interesting.

 

[garris3404]

What? A non-Disney vacation? Growing up in NC, we frequently visited the Great Smokey Mountains and Gatlinburg Tennessee. I always enjoy spending time there.

 

[deletedpenguin]

My favorite non-Disney vacation spot:

 

[garris3404]

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Sqawpan Lake in Northern Maine last summer. No TVs, no phone, ... very relaxing. We are going back again this summer.

Kids sitting on the porch

Playing in the lake

Playing in the lake

Early evening canoe trip with cousin

Gathering firewood

Climging Haystack Mountain

View from the top of Haystack Mountain (Sqawpan Lake in background)

Picking some wild flowers

 

[fitzperry]

Think I've posted these before, but we spend some time on Lake Michigan every summer with some friends and family. Here are a couple that I took there last year. I'm a total beach bum, so we take as many beach vacations as we can.

NYC is another favorite spot of mine.

And I keep telling dh that we need to fit more European travel into our budget. Then again, we've had so many large expenditures in the last few months that dh told our 7yo the other day that she might be able to help drive the next time we go to Disney, so it doesn't look like there are any more overseas trips in my near future. I promised her I wouldn't let that happen!

 

[0bli0]

My favorite non-Disney vacation spot:

i'm lucky, Sydney's where i go whenever i come home from being on holiday. it's a great location for NYE fireworks, isn't it!

we take a few trips every year. next month dw and i are going to china and tibet (taking the world's highest train). we've been all up and down the eastern part tons of times, so this trip will be special going west on part of the silk road. i'll post pictures when we return (or maybe even whilst i'm there).

 

[tinksdad]

Here's a few from a dive trip to Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida. We stayed in a small family owned hotel that was right on the ocean front. Took our gear and dove right off the back door!! Very nice.

Sunrise over Datura Pier

Midnight Parrotfish

Grey Triggerfish

DD playing with the sand

Trunkfish

Queen Angel

Flamingo Tongue Nudibranch

 

[YEKCIM]

Here are a few from our trip to the VA/NC mountains last October:

Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, VA

Mabry Mill, Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia

Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, exact location not noted

~YEKCIM

 

[deletedpenguin]

i'm lucky, Sydney's where i go whenever i come home from being on holiday. it's a great location for NYE fireworks, isn't it!

we take a few trips every year. next month dw and i are going to china and tibet (taking the world's highest train). we've been all up and down the eastern part tons of times, so this trip will be special going west on part of the silk road. i'll post pictures when we return (or maybe even whilst i'm there).

I'm actually making the move in September. I'll be living up in the Hornsby/West Pennant Hills Area.

 

[simba928]

These 2 are from my last vacation. It was a cruise with a bunch of family friends to St. Martin and St. Thomas. They were gorgeous islands!

This is my favorite place to go other than Disney...MIAMI!!! (this isn't the best pic I have, but its the best one on this computer)

 

[Aimerskoeh]

Some of my other fav vacation destinations include Europe, Chicago, and NYC.
I don't have my chic. or Europe pics on my computer anymore.
But I will include some of my pics from my spring break trip to NYC.

 

[boBQuincy]

The Virginia Creeper Trail, the best (low impact) mountain biking in the East. 17 miles, all downhill!

 

[jann1033]

our last trip was last fall to North and South Carolina
folly beach sc pier

biltmore house, stable asheville nc

someplace in NC mountains, i think south of asheville

another place that isn't far but we like is the toledo ohio zoo and botanical gardens, a nice weekend trip for us...last one is of my cranky husband after a day of me stopping every 5 seconds to take a photo...well the annoyed look is the same

 

[AndrewWG]

Here are some of our non Disney trips:

Acadia National Park in Maine:

Sarasota area of Florida (from here we then went to Disney )

Redwoods in northern California on our "See 'Em Before They're Gone" trip.

Think these trees are big? That's my DW and DD way down the bottom!

All photos proudly taken with my canon S2 IS.

Andy

 

[handicap18]

Here are a few from travel agent years. Not the best of scans. Since our honeymoon we've only gone to Atlanta back in '01 other than Disney. ATL was just the weekend though for a wedding. So here are some older stuff.

Front St, Hamilton, Bermuda:

Melia Mayan Beach, Cozumel:

Palm Beach, Aruba:

Hong Kong:

Grand Palace, Bangkok, Tailand:

Divi Little Bay, St Maarten:

Tower Bridge, London:

Once I can get my scanner working again I'd like to rescan these at a higher DPI for better clarity.

 

[funhouse8]

Maine

Our campground in maine

RCCL

Cozomel

ca

more ca

Vegas

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Banff, AB

Key Colony Beach, FL

Key West, FL

 

[Jeanne B]

Love seeing the pictures from Maine (ok, so I'm a little biased). Besides the Maine pics there are some stunning photos on here, great thread!!

Our last trip was to WDW and a DCL cruise but prior to that we went to the US Virgin Islands last June. As much as I enjoy WDW our trip to the USVI was the best, most relaxing vacation ever. Can't wait to go back.

Trunk Bay, St John

Hawksnest Beach, St John

Cinnamon Bay, St John

 

[0bli0]

I'm actually making the move in September. I'll be living up in the Hornsby/West Pennant Hills Area.

onya mate! you're in a decent part of town far enough from town but not too remote. you will quickly learn we don't really have freeways in sydney, but you're not far from a major train station.

look me up when you get here and we can go shooting.



for me - one of my favourite destinations is tokyo. the people are great and there are so many photographic opportunities - even touristy ones

 

[tinksdad]

Love the repeating patterns and your point of view on this shot!! Nice!!