[speaker001:] did they mention our topic
[speaker002:] yes vacation spots
[speaker001:] okay right anything anything in the area of types of vacations you've been on lately you've really enjoyed
[speaker002:] well I I guess probably my favorite thing to do is to go to the beach um and my most favorite place to do that is San Diego uh I love San Diego very much but this past summer we went to um Gulf Shores Alabama and had a great time there
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the beach was beautiful and and that was really uh a nice place to go so that's that's probably one of my most favorite places to go how about you
[speaker001:] well I'm a lot the same way we uh I was raised well West Virginia but also Virginia and I spent an awful a lot of time on the Virginia Beach area and I sort of love the water I've always loved the ocean so I enjoy going to the beaches myself as far as a favorite beach um probably Myrtle Beach is as as more of a younger person I haven't been there for years I'd like to go back and see how it has changed but I enjoy Myrtle Beach I enjoy Padre Island right here in Texas but I enjoy pretty much any beaches
[speaker002:] uh-huh I've I've heard that Myrtle Beach is wonderful I have friends who think that that's the best place in the world I've I've never been myself but uh you know I've heard that it's a wonderful place to go
[speaker001:] well I haven't been right haven't been for twenty years myself but
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] one of these days I'll go back and see how nice it is I'm sure it's just as nice as ever as a as a high schooler and a college kid it was a great place to go it was the big weekend place and things like that especially in the summer the place to go in the summer to get a
[speaker002:] yeah sure
[speaker001:] you know a summer job and to spend your dollars and uh have fun and everything
[speaker002:] sure well also one of my I was thinking another one of my favorite places is uh Santa Fe uh have you ever been to Santa Fe New Mexico
[speaker001:] no I haven't
[speaker002:] well it's wonderful
[speaker001:] oh I'll bet it is
[speaker002:] yeah it really is a beautiful place and for the past two falls I've gone there I've made two trips to Santa Fe it's sort of becoming an annual thing for me uh I go by myself I go without my family and uh if
[speaker001:] what do you do
[speaker002:] uh pardon
[speaker001:] what do you do while you're there
[speaker002:] well I basically uh I love to visit churches there are wonderful churches in Santa Fe it's a real uh it's just a wonderful area and this past year I went to a fabulous uh monastery
[speaker001:] uh-huh right
[speaker002:] uh that's out in the desert uh out in the hills of Santa Fe I also went to one of the Indian pueblos this past year and that was just wonderful
[speaker001:] yeah my wife would probably enjoy I mean enjoy we'd probably enjoy that also are you Catholic
[speaker002:] no I'm not
[speaker001:] okay we're we're Catholics so we'd we'd definitely definitely enjoy all the old churches
[speaker002:] oh you'd really enjoy it then well you would love it because I have a very great appreciation for uh the Catholic church and for Catholic churches and all the ones I visit are Catholic uh
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] one of the places that I went to is a little place town called Tamayo it's out of Santa Fe
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and they have there's a sanctuary there there was supposed to be some uh miracle healing that occurred there and it is just a fabulous place I I I just love Tamayo and it's about thirty minutes north of of Santa Fe and
[speaker001:] oh no kidding we'll have to maybe give that a try sometime
[speaker002:] well I'd highly recommend it particularly if you're Catholic I think you'd have a great appreciation for it
[speaker001:] if you're a a water person my wife still says the best vacation we ever went on with our kids and as a family was we went to one of the Jack Tarr Villages in the Caribbean and we went to one the one located at Puerto Plata
[speaker002:] did you Puerto Plata
[speaker001:] and you know that's the most reasonable vacation we were ever on we just opened the paper one morning four or five years ago and it said round trip all included seven days hotel food all you could drink just every party everything it was almost like a cruise
[speaker002:] ah uh-huh
[speaker001:] but uh it was like five ninety nine so we said let's do it so we packed up everyone four of us plus my son's girlfriend we all went and it's probably not like I said not only the most reasonable vacation we were ever on and everything was paid for it was just glorious I mean the water was fantastic you get they had pools they had beaches people were so courteous the lodging was fantastic the food was just like being on a cruise ship
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] everything from Baked Alaska right on down and all this for five hundred and ninety nine dollars it was
[speaker002:] uh-huh I mean that's unbelievable the price
[speaker001:] oh it is unbelievable and we keep saying that one of these days our kids are getting older now they're in college and uh be getting married and whatever so we doubt we'll ever have the opportunity to go back with our with our kids but but we're certainly going back but
[speaker002:] with your kids
[speaker001:] that's probably one place that we really enjoyed
[speaker002:] now that didn't include your airfare did it
[speaker001:] that included everything airfare lodging every meal I mean if you were a heavy drinker you could sit there and drink twenty five or thirty drinks a day or whatever you wanted I mean just it was everything
[speaker002:] gosh good grief
[speaker001:] and it was just a a Caribbean type of surrounding very tropical just uh entertainment every night I don't know if you've ever been a cruise ship or not but it was exactly like being on a cruise ship
[speaker002:] yeah I've been on a cruise ship
[speaker001:] and we were on four cruises and uh