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15 July 2018, 05:54 AM | #1 |
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The Beach On A Budget
As I am preparing to take my slightly spoiled children on their second beach vacation this month, I am remembering the very different Beach Trips of my late teens and early twenties....
These experiences might be anachronistic, but Anybody remember driving all night to the beach to save on the cost of a motel? And sleeping in the car/ on the beach if you got there too early? Sneaking into a hotel pool to rinse off the sand so you could change into dry clothes to go out that night? Ten crashing in the room meant to hold four? And having so much fun that you never noticed that you were on a shoestring? |
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not exactly in that order but yeah... a couple
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What beach you heading to?
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Yup. Just another normal day actually in my teens.
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Did someone say beach?
I still prefer the tent. The best beaches don't come with hotels anyway. |
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Not the beach, but I’ve done everything you mentioned for snowboarding. Once, we arrived at the resort around midnight. Too poor to get a room, so we slept in the front seats of a hatchback car. Snowed 10 inches that night. Woke up frozen and purple, but didn’t slow us down... carved all day grinning ear to ear.
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If you change the beach to skiing, then most definitely.
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Just got back from Destin with the fam. Beaches there were nice and much different than Texas beaches.
I remember as a kid we used to camp on the beach, no motel. I hated it because you couldn’t eat anything without crunching on sand. At night we would rinse off and change but I still felt sticky from the salt. Lastly it never failed that we would put the tent too close to the water and the tide would wake us up. Lol. Definitely different vacations now with my spoiled kids. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Your budget will go further at SWFLA Gulf beaches.
I just hosted a family reunion in Mid-June on the beach. You’re right - it evoked 60 years of Summer vacation memories spent on beaches stretching from Longboat Key down to Marco and in between. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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Except for the frostbite, same trip |
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I remember high school in the 80’s, driving from Ontario to Ft Lauderdale for spring break. Four guys camping in a van. Good times
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Looks like the perfect spot for family fun We’ve had a place on the East Coast for 30+ years now and it’s really home away from home for my kids. We still hit Marco from time to time, though. Love it All the best T |
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Unspoiled beaches are getting hard to find. The construction process building hotels tends to ruin the beach. What is left is more a man-made beach themed park than a real beach.
This one near Sifah Oman, before the hotels were built down the road. |
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Our little slice of unspoiled paradise on Lake Huron near Amberely Ontario. Sent from my SM-G935W8 using Tapatalk |
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I was nearly killed in Rhode Island while in school.
Could not afford a room. One buddy slept in the car. Me and another on the beach. We were covered by morning. The beach cleaning machine driver had no idea we where there. It was an incredibly close call. Slept in the car many times after that. Some of the best times of my life.
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When I was 14-16, we used to go to the Black Sea in Romania on school trips. It was cheap,Crappy lodging, crappy food, but we always escaped at night and partied til 5 am! Ahh, those great times!
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