Day/Weekend Trips & Unique Vacation Ideas
starting from the Greater Philadelphia area
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Evening Ideas
Beach Clubs on the Delaware
     the Beach Club-829-1900 pier 42
     Maui 423-8116 pier 53 463-5771
     Katmandu 627-5151 pier 25
     Eli's-at exit I6 off 95

Day Trip Ideas
Shopping the Reading Outlets/Starr Tours Cottman Ave. 728-0150
Atlantic City Casino Trips/Starr Tours 1-800-782-7703/
Coal Mines-Lackawanna Coal Mines 1-800-238-7245
Crystal Cave RD #3 Kutztown PA 683-6765
Shopping & dining  in New Hope, Peddlers Village, Chestnut Hill,
      Skippack Village, & Manyunk -                              
New Jersey Shore 
Lancaster/Amish (Visitor Info 267-7482)
       Railside America Rt.22 Hamburg Strasburg RR CO. 717-687-7577
Cowtown Rodeo (&:30pm) & Flea Market (8am-4pm) 
       1-609-769-3200 or 769-3207  $8 till last w/e in Sept.
Camden, NJ Aquarium
One Mile Tour-Train Sets: Northlandz $12 adults,$8 kids, 8mi of track near Flemington NJ
Race Track

Weekend Trip Ideas
New York NY State Touristry 1-800-CALL NYS of 1-518-465-2300
Niagara Falls Canadian Bureau 1-800-563-2557
Massachussets/Cape Cod-Nickerson State Park /Nantucket/Boston
Vermont
PA/Grand Canyon/Knobles Grove Amusement park & camping 717-672-2572, 717-672-9555. 1-800-ITS 4 FUN W/E Elysburg near Bloomsburg/ Delaware Water Gap

  PSU Main Campus (& football game-get tix way in advance) 
      814-865-4700 or 814-865-7517 or 814-863-1100 calendar touch 
       #456   Nittany Lion Inn 814-231-7505
Lancaster/ Hershey/Amish
Scranton Steamtown 717-340-5200 Nat'l park to honor railroad (opened 7/95)
Maryland- Baltimore Aquarium  & Inner Harbor area 
        US Army Ordnance Museum-
       Aberdeen Proving Ground Md 21005/ Ground Squirrel Holler LLama
       treksin fall and spring $50/person $ 25 ids Victorian B& B near
       Frederick in Sharpsburg Md Rt 65 301-432-8288
Washingnton DC-Museums Holiday Inn is great 
      Washington DC 1-800-554-2220 will find a room in DC
Virginia/Busch Gardens/Williamsburg/ Jamestown

Week Long Trip Ideas  for Drives from the Phila area 

Bay of Fundy between Canada & Nova Scotia ( 13-14 hr drive??) (Also from that area see ; Halifax, Peggy's Cove ) Has a rocky shore with 30-40 ft tides between red cliffs . The tide comes in and there is ocean & you can paddle to the caves and formations high up in the ledges - Diving Caving Kayaking The tides go out and you can walk on the ocean floor
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New York adirondack area - Lake Luzerne - near lake George without all the crowds and traffic that Lake George has - No motor boats on lake . Can take pets - camp in state park in nice facilities- kayaks & canoes on the lake . Nice town area to explore  
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NY  & Canada Niagara Falls
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Places worth flying to: 

Ski the West
Villas of the World
Islands-Club Med 1800 ClubMed 1-800-388-8850 through Weekends
Florida-Sanibel Island
Canada/Algonquin Park/ Quebec/ Canadian Rockies
Williamsburg (special packages- 1-800-541-2225)
Ecuador-Galopogos Islands
Dude Ranches ie : Texas (Bandera Texas Mayan Dude Ranch 210-796-3312)
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UNIQUE VACATION IDEAS