For you Yellowstone buffs, check out this site:

https://www.geysertimes.org

It has detailed stats on geyser eruption times and frequencies. We used it to help figure out when to try to catch Steamboat (world's tallest) last year; we did! We saw it erupt up to 300' high for about 35 minutes, absolutely amazing! (You can hear it half a mile away.) We also caught Grand Geyser that afternoon and OF while having dinner at the cafeteria next to it. Research helps. It was also fun having a herd of bison stroll past right next to our camper. "Where do the buffalo cross the road? Anywhere they want!"

We've had better luck at the Tetons seeing bears than Yellowstone; the flowers at Teton can be great, too.

Cedar Point is always awesome, except for that one week when I got a room too close to the train tracks.

I would say best ever was at Panama City Beach for a week after graduating high school. It was the last time I was ever able to be young and dumb for a whole week.

And back then there were no noisy and smelly jet skis on the beach, just sailboat rentals. We took sailboats out for about 2 hours a day, for the first few days.

We were hauling ass! I worked the sails every time, and I kept us going as fast as I could without ever tipping the boat over.

We were lapping all our friends on the other boats.

Then one time my friend steering another boat decided he wanted to play chicken. I seen it coming the way he was smiling.

Long story short our pontoon went over their boat and half of them jumped in the water.

And we were all banned from renting sailboats for the rest of the trip.

Every night was a big fun party all week! 5 gallon water coolers loaded with awesome "hunch punch", tons of beer, and tons of girls looking for a good time.

To this day anytime I go there I stay at the same hotel. Not as fun now, but it would kill me anyway to ever have that much fun again.

The best but yet most miserable trip was in July 2018. Me and a friend that had already traveled to most of the Six Flags parks in the US was driving to CA to hit the 2 Six Flags parks there.

I stopped for a restroom break in Alabama, and when I started the car up the ac was not working all of a sudden.

So we rolled the windows down and cranked up the radio. That night in Texas, after driving 80 mph all day with all the wind noise and radio so loud we were about deaf.

So no more radio for the remaining 12 days on the trip.

While driving through Texas I tried to get the ac fixed, but everywhere we tried had a wait time of 3-4 days.

We ended up getting lucky, it had just rained a lot in the desert so we did not have to deal with any blowing dust/sand.

And the dry heat going 90+ mph was not too bad.

The car continued to get worse though, overheating all the time. I thought for a while I might just have to stop somewhere and buy a new car.

Anyway that trip ended up ok, CA was awesome!

I did end up with my first speeding ticket in over 17 years, 82 in a 70. (not even enough to get any points on my license).

Not sure where the next road trip will be to. Right now I would just like to take the boat out fishing, just too windy at the moment.

And sideways on the topic of best vacation, what are some of your best "good" bad luck incidents, i.e. where something went wrong but the end result was better than if it had gone right?

Not my photo. I have plenty, but was shooting film back then.

This was the Winslow. It was one of those places I really enjoyed staying at in the Outer Banks. It was among the old cottage row in Nags Head. To be sure, this wasn't your 10+ bedroom ultra-modern beach house (I've done plenty of those, often when working down there), but it had real, old-beach character. The wood floors and stairs creaked to no end. The den reeked of old smoke from the fireplace. The broken mantel clock always showed it was 10:40. The place had character, in volumes. To smell the salt air and old wood, and hear the surf from the hammock slung from that wrap-around porch was pure joy.

The last time I stayed there, high tide was coming up as close as 15 feet from the back deck stairs. Not long after, I read in the paper that the owner decided he had to level it.

The Air Force museum just outside Dayton, Ohio.

Midsize car that I reserved in St. Thomas was not available upon arrival, and they gave me a Jeep instead. Turns out I needed a Jeep to get to my rental home, so they saved me several hundred bucks.

Try Guam if you get a chance. Hawaii, but even more laid back and low key.

Lol... my friends brother owns a big casino there and actually offered ma a job once.

I looked into it but I cant remember what i didnt like about it.. its mainly tourists and military from what I remember.

Getting away from tumon bay is best.
You have a hook up for the local scene. (Nice)
If you can get work your golden.

I'd go back in a heartbeat and not look back.

This was way back in the 90s when the casino was pretty new.. I would have been his assistant and taken over the day to day stuff, probably would have made a ton of money

Just seemed too weird at the time since I lived in NYC and already had a good job as an IT guy

Couldn't see just packing up and going to a island.

Place is called the Sandcastle.. i dont know if there are other casinos there. I know they got hit pretty bad by a hurricane or something a few years back.

Not in the u.s. but close, French Canada, Montreal/Quebec. Spent a weekend there. Cheap short flight. Wonderful european-like atmosphere, great restaurants/architecture.