Famous People Love Vacations

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
Frank Luntz

Famous People Love Vacations

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.
Robert Teeter

Famous People Love Vacations

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.
John Hickenlooper

Famous People Love Vacations

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Earl Wilson

Famous People Love Vacations

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
Robert Orben

Famous People Love Vacations

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.
Rob Mariano

Famous People Love Vacations

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
David Lloyd George

Famous People Love Vacations

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Famous People Love Vacations

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
Bob Newhart

Famous People Love Vacations

At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it's more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It's a lot more fun now with the family.
Dave Lombardo

Famous People Love Vacations

Famous People Love Vacations

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
Evan Dando

Famous People Love Vacations

Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
Chevy Chase

Famous People Love Vacations

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
Mary Crosby

Famous People Love Vacations

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman

Famous People Love Vacations

If it wasn't for the military I probably would not have ever come to Bosnia for vacation.
Coolio

Famous People Love Vacations

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Famous People Love Vacations

I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
Jeffrey Wright

Famous People Love Vacations

I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
Lars von Trier

Famous People Love Vacations

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
Parker Stevenson

Famous People Love Vacations

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
Christian Slater

Famous People Love Vacations

I think that this industry in particular is so fast-paced that you keep saying, 'I'll take vacation later.' Sometimes later never comes. I'm definitely leading a much slower life now that I'm not working every single day on a television series.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Famous People Love Vacations

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.
Will Wright

Hotel Booking Strategy

Using complicated logarithmic computations we found a hotel in Oklahoma City for the first leg of our cross country journey.

Using Priceline I found a three star hotel located near the zoo for only 56 dollars a night, but I didn't book it.  I checked it against Expedia, Orbitz, and other such crap.  I then used my employer's discount web page to get an additional sixty percent off of priceline prices.  I verified directly with the hotel to make sure that price was in fact cheaper than the price they were offering for that night.  Then I booked it.

Protip:  Make sure that your hotel has free parking available no point saving on a room when your car needs to rent a spot.

Famous People Love Vacations

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
Oksana Baiul

Getting There is Equal to or Greater Than One Half the Fun

So no one wants to ride cross country in either my car or Lenay's car.  Both run well enough to get through Evansville but not America.

Now recently we rented a car for Lenay to visit her hometown, Gary, IN.  We rented the 2012 Chevy Impala.  I got a chance to drive it around  before she left town.  It was awesome.  So immediately we knew that was the car that would drive us across country.

Comfort and Style

We got it from Enterprise the first time.  We are doing the same this time.  Only this time I will remember to use the discount that work gets me.

Famous People Love Vacations

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Clarence Day

Famous People Love Vacations

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation.
Tom Berenger

Making Stops Along The Way

We are not traveling all the way to the Grand Canyon via express mail.  So, we have to plan places to stop.  You know, so we can sleep, eat, and pee.

Surely, along the One Thousand Six Hundred and Four Mile drive there will be some other things we want to see in America.  This is where Trip Adviser and Google Maps Come into play. It looks like Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff are all along the way.  There are some other cities along the way, but Lenay and I have already narrowed this list down based on what we wanted to see.

Lenay and I are zoo goers.  We like zoos.  They are kind of easy to enjoy as long as your don't go in with the wrong expectations.  Zoos are not circuses.  The animals are on display.  They are not performers.  Also going to a zoo means you don't need some secret friend in the city who can tell you where all the cool shit is.  Also the Oklahoma City Zoo, according to their website, is only 8 bucks.

Oklahoma City and Albuquerque both have zoos, but (of the two) only Oklahoma City has a Hyatt Place Hotels.  I'll talk a little more about how Hyatt Place is the most awesome hotel chain ever in another post.

Albuquerque has no Hyatt Place, but Flagstaff does and is really close to our destination.  Staying Flagstaff means we can get up in the morning and only be a couple hours from the Grand Canyon.

Famous People Love Vacations

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
Vince McMahon

Famous People Love Vacations

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson

Famous People Love Vacations

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.
Ed Helms

Planning a Destination

If you were to ask me where the Grand Canyon was I would have said, "Your Mom."  I would have been correct, but as it turns out we have to go to Arizona to see it.


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There it is that's the line we've drawn for ourselves.  Google says it will take just 27 hours to drive there straight through with no stops.  I've never tried meth but maybe it is awesome.  I kind of think we will have to stop though.

Famous People Love Vacations

honestly if I get a vacation I'm gonna go and sit on my couch in New York cause that's the one place I haven't been for a very long time.
Matt Damon

Famous People Love Vacations

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
Steven Wright

Where to Go and What to Do

The open road.  The great wide open.  The big ass hole in the ground.  This year we are heading off to see America from the highway.  Our final destination is the Grand Canyon.  Just the little lady and I will be facing off against the elements.  It will be just us and the heated seats our rented 2012 Impala.

We plan on taking a break from the lush interior of rented car in Oklahoma City where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain and then again in Flagstaff, AZ.  In Oklahoma City we will be seeing the wild untamed animals of America the way God intended, in a zoo.  We will be sleeping out under the ceilings of hotels.

Yeah, we will really be roughing it.