Favorite TRAVELspots

[Surfer_Dude]

I want to take my son on a short trip this summer (saving for a house, not too much money to spend).

A few cheap ideas:

Camp out Table Mountain $15 a site.

Not as cheap; I heard you can camp out at the San Diego Wild Animal Park and San Diego Zoo.  That sounded fantastic to me, but your kids have to be 4 and up.  They also have an adult only wine camp out.

Join the San Diego Zoological Society and have 14mos. free Zoo and Animal Park for two and two passes for guests.

You can go online and get a camp site at the beach real cheap and it will have bathrooms and showers.  I am going to San Onofre this Summer.

Go to the Getty Museum or Huntington Library.  The little kids really like the Huntington.

If you use AAA or know someone that does they have a lot of great ideas and further discounts. (ie.  A year for a days admission at Seaworld)

Look for hotel rooms and vacation deals on Hotel.com, orbitz, travelzoo, and travelocity.

[Hillbillies]

Hillbilly, how long did the car trip take?

We stopped a lot on the way to take photos.  We also stopped and ate the "Cracker Barrel" in Kingman for about an hour.  We left Wrightwood at 9:30 a.m. and made it to Williams AZ at about 5:00 p.m.  I would guess you could make it to Williams with minimal stops in about 6 hours.

[WWDREAMN]

MMMMMM!! Cracker Barrel I want grilled chicken tenderloin, hash brown casarole, mashed Potatoes and gravy and green beans and a frozen mug strawberry sundae for dessert. Maybe we will vacation in Kingman!!! CB is probably one of the things we miss most about Michigan.

[Chuck]

[K9luvr]

We love to travel up to Northern California along the 1 or 101.  Trinidad (north of Arcada) is a great location

I went to Humboldt State back in the late 70's/early 80's.  One of my professors had a house in Trinidad and his kitchen window overlooked the ocean.  I told his wife that I would come and do their dishes any time just to get that magnificant vew.  I really had a lot of fun hiking and camping on the cheap in that country. 

[Hillbillies]

Back Packing up Bishop Pass and into Dusy Basin is pretty cool.  I hiked this with my family when I was a kid.

Here's a link that shows some nice photos of this trek.

http://www.stanford.edu/~swt/2001backpacking.html

[GARY]

As for cities......I like San Diego and San Francisco.  But my favorite vacation destination is New Mexico.  I'm planning a trip to Angel Fire (north of Taos) to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built there.