30 days and 30 nights...

rockcity

rockcity

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Ok. If you had 30 days straight off of work, what would you do?



The wife and kids won't be able to be off for 30 days either but could reasonably join in on the fun 1/2 the time. Budget has to be reasonable as well.


Think late summer/early fall.

Both buggies will be running by then and the boat will be an option too.

Here are some thoughts:
Week long wheeling/camping/hiking trip with the family, stopping at several 4x4 parks but also stopping at several national/state parks to sight see. Haven't thought of where yet.

Week long trail riding trip with the guys and leave the kids and wife at home to work and pay for all my broken parts.

Week of offshore fishing. (My favorite :D )

Week of finishing up the honey-do list


Sounds good but if I don't plan now, it will end up being 3.5 weeks working on honey do items and the rest of the time me on NC4x4 complaining about it. :lol:


Any good ideas out there?
 
weird...I made the wife watch that movie last night (30 days and nights). Scared the heck out of Her:)

Your plan sounds better than a gameshow prize except save the last week for fishing.
 
hunterdan said:
weird...I made the wife watch that movie last night (30 days and nights). Scared the heck out of Her:)

Your plan sounds better than a gameshow prize except save the last week for fishing.
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If I save the last week for fishing and the honey do list doesn't get done on week 3, then it will extend until completed and eat into my fishing week. Choosing week 4 for the honey do list was strategic! ;)
 
This is something I have been thinking about for a few years now. I would like to walk into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in late October and come out the weekend before Thanksgiving. No set location to make it to by a set time, just a handful of ‘sites’ that I would like to see and make it to during that 30 days. It will never happen though.
 
I would be a stay at home dad for a month. Try to get as much done in day when the kids are at school as possible.

Me and my wife are both teachers so we both have summers completely off. Realistically that much time off in a row doesn't really afford more time to get to do fun things. Nor do I get more done than I do during the school year. I feel like most days are just wasted into nothingness.
 
BigBody79 said:
Realistically that much time off in a row doesn't really afford more time to get to do fun things. Nor do I get more done than I do during the school year. I feel like most days are just wasted into nothingness.
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You are doing something wrong
 
We done this 3/4 years,spent 29 days on the road went all the way to Cali.Having it to do again I wouldn't go any farther than NM and come back thru the Dakotas.Ive been eyeballin this trip for a while but Jakes heading to College next year and I don't see it happening any time soon.
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I'd do something like our big trip last August. The weather is perfect from about mid-August until late-September for that sort of thing, and ten days wasn't nearly long enough.
 
Yeah I'm really liking the idea of a week or 2 just camping, wheeling, sightseeing, etc.

Because the wife and kids can't really go for 2 weeks, may keep it mostly east coast; may venture towards CO and Moab but it's likely the kids and wife won't be with me.
 
Damn, that would take some thinking. I guess that i will probably never have 30 days off in a row, so I wouldn't know where to start. Wheeling and sight seeing out west would definitely be on the agenda. I fishing would have to be a priority for me as well.
 
I'd finish the honey-do 1st week. To me, it would suck to come home from all the fun and have that waiting.
 
To answer your question....

We did this when I was 15 or so. You have a boat. Go to Atlantic Beach. Rent a place for a month that is sound-side, with a boat slip. Get up early every morning, walk 75' to the boat, go fish. (Don't forget to bait the crab trap on the way out.) Back to house, lunch, nap....then head offshore again. Break it up every once in a while drifting for flounder inshore. Repeat for 30 days. You will probably question ever returning to work.

August-September (2 months...scope creep) would be good, Spanish running and getting big. Before the water cools and they head south.

The honey-do list will be there next year.
 
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Boat is at 70 west in Morehead. A quick call and it's in the water fueled up, ice and beer, with bait ready and waiting by the time we get there so a house in AB with a slip is nice it just doesn't give us much since we are so close and the boat is convenient. And we usually drop some small crab pots on our way out and pick up on our way back in. :)


However, I did consider trailering it up and down the east coast and fishing some good spots offshore and inshore for a week to try some new places.
 
I realize this list is a bit random and I'm not spending along time anywhere but that's how I am once I've been somewhere a few days I'm ready for some new scenery, except East Tennessee I could live there in a card board box and be happy.

Day 1-5 fly to Moab rent a rig have a ball
Day 6-10 East Tn, fish soho and watagua
Day 11-20 Wheel Windrock or Harlan
Day 21-26 East tn beaver dam or the doe
Day 26-30 Obx Big Drum on the fly rod.
 
CasterTroy said:
Moab, fly them out, all ride home together
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I thought about them traveling out with me and we take a week or two to have good family time on a road trip, Clark Griswold style and wheel a couple times along the way till we get to Moab and spend a few days there wheeling, camping, biking, etc. then fly the family home and I run back hitting Arkansas and a few other places solo, Windrock and Harlan included.
 
rockcity said:
Boat is at 70 west in Morehead. A quick call and it's in the water fueled up, ice and beer, with bait ready and waiting by the time we get there so a house in AB with a slip is nice it just doesn't give us much since we are so close and the boat is convenient. And we usually drop some small crab pots on our way out and pick up on our way back in. :)


However, I did consider trailering it up and down the east coast and fishing some good spots offshore and inshore for a week to try some new places.
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Dang, I was just there with the kids last week. Had to settle for no boat ride and a shrimp burger from Els.
 
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