Tuesday Thingers: Vacation Time

This week's Tuesday Thingers topic is about vacation plans and reading. Good questions. But how did it get to be the 8th of July all of a sudden? The summer is zipping right along, isn't it?

But I digress (as usual). The questions:

Since we're past the Fourth of July and the summer season has officially started, what are your plans for the summer? Vacations, trips? Trips that involve reading? Reading plans? If you're going somewhere, do you do any reading to prepare? Do you read local literature as part of your trip? Have you thought about using the LT Local feature to help plan your book-buying? (by Marie at Boston Bibliophile)

We don't really have any terribly interesting vacation plans this summer, I'm afraid. And one of our trips is over now – we spent a few days in Shenandoah National Park, over the July 4th holiday weekend. No camping out (I'm not much of a camper – well, actually I'm not any of a camper) – stayed in one of the cabins. Did a lot of hiking and critter-watching. But we had quite a lot of rain, so there was lots of time to just sit and read, too. My favorite kind of vacation! I guess you could say I'm not a thrill seeker.

The only other trip we have planned doesn't happen until the end of August – we'll be heading back to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for our annual week at the beach. We're nothing if not habitual. I won't be doing any reading to prepare for the trip, but of course I'll be taking along a few beach reads (haven't decided what they'll be yet). If we were heading for someplace I'd never visited before, I probably would do some preparatory reading. And if we spend a bit of time somewhere, I might read local literature about or from the place – but probably not if it's just a short visit.

I have to admit I haven't even looked at LT Local – didn't really even know it was there. But now that it's been pointed out to me, I'll have to give it a look.

Here's a shot from our trip to Shenandoah, taken from the deck of our cabin in the clouds.