Big Summer Plans?!

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So summers coming up fast, its starting to get warmer (at least here it is, sorry if you're not getting the warmth! :p), so that means summer vacation and trips!

Anyone taking any awesome trips anywhere this summer?! Where to?
 

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I'm taking this awesome trip I've been waiting for since last summer. At 15:00 on July 8th, I'll hop into the bus and head southwest. After approximately two and a half hours, I'll reach my destination: home. And the best part about it is I've only got a one-way-ticket. No more army!

It's gonna be legen - wait for it - dary! (Too much How I Met Your Mother lately...)
 

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> And possible go to Italy and eat sausage or some shit.

Rofl.

Dunno, I'm gonna enjoy summer the way it is. :D
 

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My big summer plan may be the most lamest plan ever conceived by mankind.

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What else I can do during the summer? Practice programming and having fun with it. :thup:
 

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What else I can do during the summer?

I don't know, get out and have fun? Me and my buddy just meet cool people on Facebook or out and about while we're doing things, and then take beach trips and trips places, and just do stuff like kick it at the pool or go see a movie. It's fun to meet new awesome people and to get out and do things.

Once I actually started going outside my room a few years back, I noticed a lot more enjoyment in life as compared to playing video games all day. But perhaps thats just me, I enjoy getting out and meeting new people. (IE: Hot girls)
 

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Touring colleges probably.. maybe do a bit of backpacking. Oh yeah, that and training for a 200 mile bike race next year.
 

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Anything that gets me away from textbooks. Definitely lots of outdoors stuff. Hiking, mountain biking, camping, maybe some boating, and in September I'm hopefully doing the Napa Valley Ragnar.
 

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Training for the Davis Double bike race is gonna be hard. Also doing a race to raise awareness for Tuberculosis.
 

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Personally, I just have a bunch of "un-planned planned" beach trips. And by that I mean we have plans to go to the beach with people, but no set dates yet. Other than that, we're going to hit up Six Flags once or twice, and then of course the partying. Yeah boy :thup:
 

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Wished I could go to a beach. :( We lack a beach near my college, all mountains and cliffs, no beach. If we have one, the earthquake would just gobble it up.
 

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Wished I could go to a beach. :( We lack a beach near my college, all mountains and cliffs, no beach. If we have one, the earthquake would just gobble it up.

You can go to a lake. Same thing just no waves. The water would be fresh and if you're lucky and live in a nice place, it'll be clean to. I'd possibly even prefer that over a beach.
 

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You can go to a lake. Same thing just no waves. The water would be fresh and if you're lucky and live in a nice place, it'll be clean to. I'd possibly even prefer that over a beach.

The lakes around here suuuuuck in terms of swimming. They're dirty and not very visually attractive. They're pretty much 100% fishing or tubing, if tubing is allowed at the lake you're at.
At least here, if you want to go in the water, you're better off at the beach. And even then, thats not exactly the best either, but it's what we got. haha :)
 

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I just kicked off summer a little early, 2 great weeks in sunny Florida. :thup:

My summer is going to mainly consist of gigs and the odd festival, as well as spontaneous BBQs, incense-fueled campfires and effigy burnings. Anyone else going to any festivals? I'm headed to Sonisphere in July at Knebworth, then Iron Maiden in Sheffield a couple of weeks later. And there's Queens of the Stone Age on May 21st, just after my birthday. Only real downer is that many people I know will be moving away at the end of it to Universities and such... I'm too lazy to move away though so am studying right here :p
 

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Well my friends are very impulse, and we decided last night to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain today (a theme park, for all you none-US peoples), and that was pretty fun. It was the weekdays, so you could pretty much walk up to any ride and instantly get on. However, we got stuck about half way up the chain hill on the tallest one there (Goliath), and after sitting there for 30 minutes and them telling us "Standby for reset" and it not working like 6 times, we had to evacuate the train...

...this involved walking down the steps of the rollercoaster chain hill. Oh shit...
This is like half way up the hill, so its 150ft+, the feet holds are the iron mesh completely see through stuff, and theres 2 bars, one in the middle so you can't fall through the middle and one to hold on to. That was the shittiest thing I've had to do in like 3 years. LOL, I was scared completely shitless, you have no idea how much it sucks so much walking down those, I never want to do that again. I was clinging that bar for dear life, the whole thing sways, and it just was absolutely one of the scariest things I've done in awhile. lol

What we had to climb down:
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Never again... D: haha
 
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