Where are the good Blue State Summer vacation Places?

[bleedingheart]

I am not in a mood to go south anymore..although I love the weather and I love the food. I don't want to hurt the blue people in the south but I am not in a mood to support them anymore...So my PA dollars stay north or go to the west coast...

[liberal N proud]

1. The north shore of Lake Superior is beautiful in the summer

[Scout]

20. I second that!

Many beautiful places in Michigan to visit, and any parts of Lake Superior.

[sybylla]

26. The Door County Peninsula in Wisconsin is nice too

Lots to do but if you like quiet, it might be a little touristy.

[Abelman]

39. Heck yeah!

And I was lucky enough to go to college there.

[truhavoc]

2. Hawaii baby!!

I've strangely been vacationing in Chicago recently though (funny huh?) but I refuse to goto Myrtle Beach anymore or even FL as long as Jeb is Gov.

[bleedingheart]

8. I would have to save up a lot of money for that but great idea!

but I bet I would love it!!!

[Lavender Brown]

3. Cape Cod

[MsFlorida]

4. Martha's Vineyard or Napa Valley

both great places

[One_Life_To_Give]

5. Cape Cod and Islands

You are always welcome to go vacation on Cape Cod, Marthas Vinyard, Nantucket. I don't think the fundies dare come too close to us heathen.

[Aiptasia]

6. I hear Vancouver is nice...

or go visit Mickey in So. Cal.

[Phillycat]

7. Delaware's nice and close for you

and Fenwick, Rehoboth and Lewes are all nice. Solidly blue state.

[benburch]

9. LOTS to do in Chicago!!!

World famous museums, amazing food, great nightlife, decent public transportation...

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

37. I second that. The blues clubs alone are worth the trip! Incredible!

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. Wine Country!

I'd love to make a trip one of these days.
or....
We really enjoyed our stay in Madison, WI a few years ago. Stayed at the Canterbury in @ State and Gorham. What a beautiful place! It's a bookstore, coffeehouse and B & B combined! There are murals from the Canterbury Tales on the wall of each room, Jacuzzi tubs, lush decor....

I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
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[JimmyJazz]

11. oooooohhhhhh - come to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware!!!

It is fabulous there: a wonderful beach resort where EVERYONE is welcome. I'll meet you there, in fact...

[NewJeffCT]

15. don't they have a huge outlet mall there, too?

I remember my ex-wife talking about it fondly before - she was originally from South Joisey.

(just occurred to me, why couldn't I find a wife from CT? Ex from NJ and now my wife is from China...)

[JimmyJazz]

25. yes - make that outlets!

http://www.beach-net.com/TownsRB.html

[GumboYaYa]

12. Door County, Wisconsin is nice.

[Nite Owl]

13. VT

It's another world. Manchester Center is a great place, fishing, hiking, falconry, art, shopping. Coast of Maine, the Berkshires. It's beautiful in NE in every season (well not March unsless you like mud after the great melt).

[blkeyedszn]

14. San Diego is great. I am here on vacation right now.

[NewJeffCT]

16. if you like casinos.. stop in CT on your way to Cape Cod

You could stop up to Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun for a day or two, then head up to Cape Cod, Nantucket or the Vineyard in Mass?

[PSU84]

17. Olympic National Park, WA

North Cascades National Park, WA

Mt. Rainier National Park, WA

Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon

Yosemite National Park, California

Sequoia/King's Canyon National Park California

Acadia National Park, Maine

[cmf]

19. Ditto

I live in Washington, and I don't leave it during the summer. It's just too nice here.

[XNASA]

18. Really. You would vacation in the South in Summer?

You belong to some kind of sweat-worshipping cult or somethin'?

:shrug:

Well, you still have the entire Pacific coast as an option. Door County Wisconsin is nice, it's the Cape Cod of the Midwest. And then of course, there's always......



Then again, there's really not a whole lot to do here. ;-)

[bleedingheart]

27. yup...we normally go to North Carolina

funny thing is that my husband hates the heat but loves the beaches...so now we can go North or out West...

[wryter2000]

21. San Francisco

Kind of expensive, but really nice. Disneyland, of course.

[wryter2000]

22. New Jersey shore

When I was a kid we used to go to Stone Harbor. I understand it's still nice there.

[dirtyduck]

30. Cape May is great too... lots of B and Bs

sort of a mini St. Augustine, FL

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. Atlantic City...

according to Jon Stewart, it's like Vegas for ugly people...plus when you run out of money, you just can't beat the free entertainment of the crazy people on the boardwalk. :evilgrin: oh yeah and White House Subs are excellent as well

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

24. Laguna Beach, Ca

It's as pretty as anywhere on the French riviera....Disneyland is close as is Seaworld AND you get to meet me :D

[wiggs]

32. Hello fellow Lagunan. nt

[stranger_with_candy]

28. Cape Cod, Boston

Most of RI and southeast CT coast...

[MarianJack]

29. Come On Up Here to MAINE!!!!!

There's a reason for our license plates say "Vacationland"!

When my wife and I came here on our honeymoon in '98, we decided to move here. 4 years later, we did!

BTW, where in PA? We're originally from the Philly suburbs!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

33. I was there in last August...

I've had this twenty-year itch to go to Maine (I live in Ohio) and finally scratched it when there was a training event in Portland. I got there a few days early and spent the time tooling all over southern Maine and New Hampshire in a rental car with Steve Earle blasting on the CD player. I had the time of my life and am coming back again this summer with the wife and kids in tow.

[MarianJack]

34. Welcome!

This is a very family friendly place!

E-mail me & we'll show you around! I maen that, too!

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

36. I stopped by the LL Bean Store in Freeport

It was pretty early in the morning and most of the tourists hadn't arrived yet. I told one of the employees that I wanted to "see Maine" and he and another employee pulled out a Maine Atlas and put together an itenerary for me. They sent me to this little family-owned restaurant in Richmond for lunch, to the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath and then to Popham Beach State Park. I had a great time.

[tsakshaug]

31. NY (not city)

There is more to NY than the city-
Adirondacks
Finger lakes- wine region
Cooperstown
The falls

[ironflange]

35. We're planning a trip to central Oregon next summer

Going to try some rockhounding. We have to cut through red state Idaho to get there, though, but I'll try to hold my breath.

[animuscitizen]

38. Woodstock, NY

We are in the Catskills--beautiful landscape, lots of art and culture, great restaurants, very liberal.

[Patiod]

40. I'd suggest Avalon, but Europe is cheaper

seriously, it is.

[Caution]

41. Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Bar Harbor, Lake Winnepesauke

Salem, Rockport anywhere in Vermont

[Crewleader]

42. Don't forget in those red states you got blue!

Many of us like me....four hurricanes happened and Bush bought his vote with them. Plus we all know the touch screening without a paper trail is to his advantage too along with his brother and republican legislature here.Getting rid of punch cards for touch screens with corporations geared for their own agenda for who they want for president. We must stop that in future elections so we can feel the votes are in our hands by counting paper ballots as proof who won!

Florida, in my county there were alot of Kerry/Edwards Supporters waving everyday in the heat and humidity...you can't forget your brothers and sisters in the red states like we cannot ever stop supporting equal rights for everyone in America. Gays are being brutally attacked in this past election only to divide us more DON'T LET IT HAPPEN!

Hugs to you bleedingheart! :hug:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

43. Cape Cod-especially outer Cape towns like Wellfleet, Truro, Provincetown

also, Rhode Island beaches are great, and Cape Ann-the North Shore of Boston-has some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.

[bif]

44. Leelenau Peninsula in Michigan

Hold your left hand out (that's what we do here to point out a location). It's the whole baby finger--sticks out into Lake Michigan. Beautiful part of the state.