Couples Getaway

This whole 'work on us' and 'get away from the kids' thing is a completely foreign concept to me, and was a relatively frequent 'fight' in my house. For me, when I made the decision to have kids, it was to incorporate them in to my life...not have a purse poodle for cute FB/IG pictures and then pawn them off when I get tired or want to do something fun. To me, 'working on us' or 'having adult time' is why bed times exist. I fully understand keeping things fresh and the importance of my wife, but probably my favorite thing in life right now is having stuff take 3x longer so I can teach my 2.5 year old how to feed the dog, take out the trash, replace a brake light, swap a fuel injector, assemble a stripped lower, etc etc. Our compromise is usually a date night every couple of weeks without kids, the wife feels good getting all dolled up, drop off the kids at a trusted caretaker (it's awkward when you want to do unspeakably dirty things to your wife and the baby sitter is sitting in the next room over, wondering why you haven't left yet and what you're clapping about), take her to a fancy dinner, try something new, bone one more time in the backseat before you get home...rinse/wash/repeat every couple weeks. Put off the Maldives trips and Alaska snowmobiling trips until the kids are old enough to enjoy them too...in the mean time, F*CK yeah I wanna go to Paw Patrol Live and let my daughters 'meet' Skye.
 
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Put off the Maldives trips and Alaska snowmobiling trips until the kids are old enough to enjoy them too

Hell naw....snowmobile while you're young enough to be able to go balls out for 9 hrs. You'll be too old to have that kinda fun by the time they get old enough

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Hell naw....snowmobile while you're young enough to be able to go balls out for 9 hrs. You'll be too old to have that kinda fun by the time they get old enough

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Until 4 years ago, snowmobiling was at least a once a year trip somewhere. I’m not saying when they’re 7-8 years old I can’t rent a two seater, continuing the incorporation...but for now, I’ll put it off. This was our last trip about 5 months before the first pregnancy...our third time doing Jackson Hole/Yellowstone and about 120 miles/day for a week straight.

Edit...that’s why we waited until 30 to have kids and have them so close together. So we could blow our money in our 20’s...and by late 30’s all the kids would be old of enough to enjoy vacations I want to go on, and I’d still be young enough to enjoy them too...haha.

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I love that my daughter is my wheeling side kick, always down to go and ain’t skeered to hit the wild stuff. My boy is getting bigger, fixing to go on his first “long trip” here soon. I’ll be taking them both and I can’t wait.

I still take a few trips just me though, and my wife gets away with her best friend once in a while, and once in a blue moon we get a date night or a night or two away just us. It’s all about balance, and that balance is different for different folks.



Btw, I have never ridden a snowmobile but I would love to some day!
 
Btw, I have never ridden a snowmobile but I would love to some day!

[derail] I've road raced motorcycles, and pretended to enduro them as well. LOVE speed! Got my race license in 2001. Raced cars, karts, motocycles, sea-doo's....but nothing has ever come close to the fun I had on snowmobiles. One year we had this guide that use to race snowmobiles in a former life. The guy at the counter warned us that he may be a little aggressive. Everyone looked at me knew what was about to take place :shaking:. Dude Barely spoke english. We started off and he all but left without checking to see if anyone was behind him. Everyone in the group knew what kind of asshole for speed I was so they insisted I go next. Then everyone fell into line in order of how crazy they were. Scott being close to me in his love for speed, then David, then Chris, then Doyle. Ole guide would wick it up, look back, there I was......scott right behind me......and he'd lay a little more into it....until I could barely keep up, Scott was nowhere in sight, Chris, David and Doyle just gave up and were poking along:lol:. Until we came to a fork...where the guide and I stopped and waited forever for Scott.....then like an hour later, Chris David and Doyle come strolling up.


Imagine the absolute fun of a motorcycle on a 12 ft wide paved track meandering thru the woods with massive elevation changes...BUT...with the added bonus of being able to DRIFT like a racing 4-wheeler. No speed limit, and the only limiting factor being your nerve. 100x more adrenaline than running the ridge of Harlan bapping the limiter in 4th on under-inflated 39's :lol:

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[derail] Imagine the absolute fun of a motorcycle on a 12 ft wide paved track meandering thru the woods with massive elevation changes...BUT...with the added bonus of being able to DRIFT like a racing 4-wheeler. No speed limit, and the only limiting factor being your nerve. 100x more adrenaline than running the ridge of Harlan bapping the limiter in 4th on under-inflated 39's :lol:

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[derail cont'd] BTW...I found where my nerve ends...doing all that, but at night. When you're hanging your ass off the side of the sled at 45-50mph to see how tight you can take that turn...but you don't see that stump just barely poking above the snow, and you can't really gauge the depth of the peripheral mound in the dark, then your ski eats all of it. I was glad I opted for the $200 insurance premium that trip. But I won't be doing any more independent night runs.

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[derail cont'd] When you're hanging your ass off the side of the sled at 45-50mph to see how tight you can take that turn...but you don't see that stump just barely poking above the snow, and you can't really gauge the depth of the peripheral mound in the dark, then your ski eats all of it.

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EXACTLY what happened to Doyle (but in daytime) :lol:

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[derail] I've road raced motorcycles, and pretended to enduro them as well. LOVE speed! Got my race license in 2001. Raced cars, karts, motocycles, sea-doo's....but nothing has ever come close to the fun I had on snowmobiles. One year we had this guide that use to race snowmobiles in a former life. The guy at the counter warned us that he may be a little aggressive. Everyone looked at me knew what was about to take place :shaking:. Dude Barely spoke english. We started off and he all but left without checking to see if anyone was behind him. Everyone in the group knew what kind of asshole for speed I was so they insisted I go next. Then everyone fell into line in order of how crazy they were. Scott being close to me in his love for speed, then David, then Chris, then Doyle. Ole guide would wick it up, look back, there I was......scott right behind me......and he'd lay a little more into it....until I could barely keep up, Scott was nowhere in sight, Chris, David and Doyle just gave up and were poking along:lol:. Until we came to a fork...where the guide and I stopped and waited forever for Scott.....then like an hour later, Chris David and Doyle come strolling up.


Imagine the absolute fun of a motorcycle on a 12 ft wide paved track meandering thru the woods with massive elevation changes...BUT...with the added bonus of being able to DRIFT like a racing 4-wheeler. No speed limit, and the only limiting factor being your nerve. 100x more adrenaline than running the ridge of Harlan bapping the limiter in 4th on under-inflated 39's :lol:

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I was clocked at 103 mph on the highway between Fairbanks and North Pole Ak on a Yamaha sled with a R1 motor in it. That thing would fly but the Ak state police wasn’t as impressed as I was about the situation. Used up my get out of jail free card that day.
 
So looks like we are headed to Grandover Resort in April. Wife got a gift card for "Dental Assistants week' and will be getting another gift card next week for her ten year anniversary. The only thing better than a vacation is a free vacation!
 
[derail] I've road raced motorcycles, and pretended to enduro them as well. LOVE speed! Got my race license in 2001. Raced cars, karts, motocycles, sea-doo's....but nothing has ever come close to the fun I had on snowmobiles. One year we had this guide that use to race snowmobiles in a former life. The guy at the counter warned us that he may be a little aggressive. Everyone looked at me knew what was about to take place :shaking:. Dude Barely spoke english. We started off and he all but left without checking to see if anyone was behind him. Everyone in the group knew what kind of asshole for speed I was so they insisted I go next. Then everyone fell into line in order of how crazy they were. Scott being close to me in his love for speed, then David, then Chris, then Doyle. Ole guide would wick it up, look back, there I was......scott right behind me......and he'd lay a little more into it....until I could barely keep up, Scott was nowhere in sight, Chris, David and Doyle just gave up and were poking along:lol:. Until we came to a fork...where the guide and I stopped and waited forever for Scott.....then like an hour later, Chris David and Doyle come strolling up.


Imagine the absolute fun of a motorcycle on a 12 ft wide paved track meandering thru the woods with massive elevation changes...BUT...with the added bonus of being able to DRIFT like a racing 4-wheeler. No speed limit, and the only limiting factor being your nerve. 100x more adrenaline than running the ridge of Harlan bapping the limiter in 4th on under-inflated 39's :lol:

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110% agree. Grew up riding sleds around New Hampshire. Trail riding, fucking up golf courses, riding to/from the bar and always had a blast. Even got to take a studded ice drag sled for a rip and may still have that seat foam in my balloon knot. Then got to go ride in Wyoming...Big mountain snowmobiling in deep powder is a whole different animal but incredibly fun, and humbling. You think you know how to ride a snowmbile, then bam, you're turned over in waist deep powder on the side of a slope. Still insane fun. Timbersleds are another pile of fun too. Soft powder makes every turn a giant berm you cant blow through. Just hammer the clutch, lean the bike and keep that right wrist locked WFO.
 
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