Describe the best vacation you've taken.

Joanne's FAVORITE answer:

I've been sooo many places its really hard to pick a favorite. I love the backpacking-through-Europe vacations and I also love the lay-on-the-beach-in-a-tropical-destination vacations. If I had to pick one ,though, I would say it was my trip to Jamacia with my two best guy friends. We were two guys and girl traveling all over Jamaica's honeymoon spots, making other vacationers wonder what type of marriage we had!! LOL

Joanne's answer:

My favorite vacation was definitely my trip to Hawaii with Rene, Kay, Sean, Chris & Michiko. It was the most beautiful place I had ever seen, I didn't do any work (save one hour standing next to my poster at a conference) for the entire week, we went to a different beach every day (sometimes 2 in one day), I discovered my favorite activity ever (snorkling!), I saw not one but THREE sea turtles, I got awesome sunset pictures...and most of it was paid for by UCR's grad student conference travel grant!

And the other answers:

Puerto Rico. yeah, that's it.

I took a week following my mother's death to St. Thomas. It had been scheduled and my Dad wanted me to still take it and I can only say that it was the best thing for me. I know most would not think so but it helped me tremendously and I can only advise others to do the same! Remember as you read this my mother was my right arm AND leg! I was so very close to her. She still is missed today!

The best vacation I had was 3 years ago when I went to the Dominican and stayed at the villa owned by the CEO of tmpw (Monster.com)

My wife and I went to Hawaii for 3 weeks and while I was there the Red Sox won the World Series.

Best? That would limit me to one. The fanciest vacation was one I won to the Dominican Republic. I got to take my husband (no personal space that time). We stayed at a private villa right on the Caribbean and we were treated like royalty. All the food and drink you could put down with people to wait on your every need. Just beautiful. But one of my most memorable was a trip I took to L.A. to be with my daughter for a week. We went to the ocean, to Disneyland, to the Hotel Del Coronado. I saw lemons actually growing on the trees outside the window of a room we stayed in. I went to Grumman's Chinese theater and saw the stars on the Hollywood walk of fame. I got to spend some quality time with my daughter, and that is something I don't get nearly enough of.

I've had a lot of great vacations, but you really can't beat a Honeymoon in Tahiti.
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I was drunk for three days on free drinks that men bought me, I didn't sleep, I hooked up with a hot marine, I won $250 gambling on craps which I had no idea how to play, I had a bartender stand on the bar and pour liquor down my throat straight from a bottle, i almost missed my plane because we stole pizza from the airport pizza hut and came home with a new free windbreaker that some random dude gave me. This vacation is living proof that the oh so famous tag line: "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" because I would never do any of those things in Boston. Wait....

Nudie Australian Vacation, Baby!!!!!!! Beach, Snorkeling, Booze and Nudie Swims!

All I can say is: Sun, Surf, Sex….

Would have to be my Hawaiian honeymoon.

Hard to tell which was my best. Our trip to Ireland and Scotland (one week in each country) or the two week trip trip to Scotland some 5 years later. Food was wonderful and people were just fantastically friendly as well as gorgeous scenery. Kissed the blarney stone on the first trip and visited by ancestral castle on the second so both outstanding trips.

At this point, any vacation away from my freakin' job is the best ever. But, then again, it is tainted by the fact that all my works sits and waits for me while I am away, so that I have to work overtime and weekends for a week just to catch up on the few days I was out. So, generally, I am a bit screwed either way :)

My honeymoon in Maui, for two reasons. First, and obviously, I just got married. Second, it was before grad school started. Ahh...before grad school - those were good times.