Thread: October mini-trip ideas?

DC may sound easy but its a great place to be anytime you go there. Especially in October. If you can expand a little beyond DC, you just upped your travel adventure. Maryland has alot to offer. Its great. Like DC and Baltimore, the homes are pretty much brick homes, and buildings, like the old brick, Excellent 4 seasons, the foilage smells great. In Maryland, you can go drive around the Chesapeake bay area, lock in on some real crabs and other seafoods like clam chowder, oysters, clams. Pizza and submarine sandwiches are great all over the region. Baltimore has its famous inner harbor, with fancy restaurants and the USS constellation docked there. Annapolis has the U.S. Naval Academy. You get tired of that, go into Virginia to Mount Vernon, or Williamsburg, or WV to Harpers Ferry, all very historical. Never a dull moment for a non rev traveller. From the likes of all the travel you have done, you have nothing to prove to anyone in going somewhere farther that a jet can take you. It's all about the fun you have, not how many foreign miles you have racked up. I quit counting and just go for myself to wherever I want to go. You can check out Philly or NY by rail easily from DC.

If only I could quit my job, take my kids out of school, and just travel the world. Hubby could join us wherever we happened to be on his days off. (Somebody has to keep paying the hotel bills!)

Originally Posted by snorkelmommato2

If only I could quit my job, take my kids out of school, and just travel the world. Hubby could join us wherever we happened to be on his days off. (Somebody has to keep paying the hotel bills!)

Sure. What's a good hubby for?

At the moment we've decided it's too far ahead to plan anymore. Every year at fall break, the flights out of here book up at the last hour - literally. This also includes other local airports. We never know what day we'll get out and if we'll need to drive to another state or just drive to our destination. Last year a fluke mechanical delay meant rerouting passengers, and hubby sweet talked the gate agent into putting us onto the delayed flight at the last minute. Later review showed that we wouldn't have made it out that day or even the next two days. We tend to forget these "challenges". Especially when a month out the flights look wide open. So we're thinking about just trying for any DL or UA flight out of TUL. We'll monitor our timeshare options (expiring points available) for last minute options and just go from there.

Nah, we're not tied to our timeshare...just figure we could use up some expiring points at no cost to make the getaway even more affordable. I'll admit it's more comfortable for our herd, too - unless we're staying with friends or family. We've got some md88s during our busier times - which should include fall break. Four or five flights out a day on DL into ATL, and of course right now the flights look spectacular - but we won't be fooled. Every fall break the flights suddenly fill up during the final 48 hours. ATL, DTW, SLC, & MSP are our options but ATL is the only one with more than two flights per day. UA is another painless option for us - ORD, DEN, IAH, and extremely limited EWR and IAD. We've capped our traveling to two segments each direction (we've only got 4 or 5 days with the herd). We'll see what happens!

Snorkel, Take a short drive down the 44 to OKC. More frequency, and seats. You will be fine in October. Nonrev101: We go far in Late Sept and 3rd week of January. Don't hold back, have your Capital One and ZEDs as backup and you will be fine..