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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 07:17 pm
I get the week following Christmas as vacation. [livejournal.com profile] vixyish will be out of town during that period. It strikes me that I should do something interesting instead of just sitting around the house. Vacation time is one of my most limited commodities, after all. I like the idea of doing something... nonstandard, but I'm having trouble coming up with ideas. A week isn't actually all that long, nor is the dead of winter timing helpful. (And, yes, the southern hemisphere sounds great, but I probably can't afford that.) Turns out polar bear season in Churchill ends in November. Ideas, folks?
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 02:43 am (UTC)
Going to Northern Alaska or Canada to see aurora in 24 hours of darkness would definitely be a nonstandard trip. (I understand the trip is popular with Japanese newly weds for fertility reasons.)
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 04:06 am (UTC)
It is! And there goes my main suggestion.

There are also several winter-only roads made of ice which are amusing at least in concept.

A week is sadly not long enough to do any of the our-winter/their-summer Antarctica things, I don't think. But I could be wrong.

I wonder if you can hike the Panama Canal? Of course, that really requires more time than a week, even if you're up for the 10 miles/day I was thinking. It'd be cool to start at one ocean and make it to another on foot.