Epiphanie Bags Give-away!

Summer is here. Let's celebrate with a give-away! Tell us about (or link to) your favorite vacation in the comments and you'll be entered to win an Epiphanie Camera Bag of your choice!

Winner will be chosen at random, and announced on this post tomorrow (June 3rd) before noon.

Good luck!  

**CONGRATULATIONS ERIN DANIELLE! You are the lucky Epiphanie bag winner! Thank you to all those who entered and shared your favorite vacation stories!

Comments

[NT]

I would have to say camping with my family. We make so many family memories around the campfire and exploring this beautiful place that God has blessed us with. Camping is for sure a vacation that lifelong creates bonds!

[Joy in Motion]

My favorite vacation is the one I am GOING to take soon!

I am going to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study the Spanish language, dance Argentine tango, and take photos of the gorgeous architecture that makes this Latin American capital look like a European city. Can't wait!!

[Lara]

My favorite vacation was our trip to Disney World, years before we had our children! Yep, we went without kids & we had a great time! We haven't taken our sons yet, but we are planning on it later this year!

[Nikki]

My most favorite recent getaway was trip we just took last month to Aruba for a friend's wedding...it was our first adult vacation since having kids 5 years ago!

[Cathryn]

My favorite vacation was Mexico by Cancun. White sand beaches, turquoise water!

[MIchelle]

Definitely to Costa Rica - what an amazing, beautiful, fun and adventurous place to visit. My hubby and I were there for our honeymoon and can't wait to go back!

[Kathy Winter]

Walt Disney World! I have fond memories of trips when I was a kid and my parents helped make more memories for my little girl!

[Shelly]

My favorite vacation was a trip that we took to the Outer Banks in NC. My loving nephew paid for the house for all of us to stay in. There was 23 of us from our family all in one house. The house was located right on the beach and had a private pool. Each room had its own bathroom attached so there was a feeling of privacy for each couple or person in the room. It was living in the lap of luxury and I pretty sure that I will never have a chance to have a vacation again that was that relaxing and enjoyable with my family. Thank you so much Esteban for the vacation of a lifetime.

[brooke]

my favourite vacation was in south dakota at the black hills! we had an amazing time with family, touring around! (p.s. i will be jumping for joy if i win!)

[Christy]

My favourite get away was with my sister to Thailand 6 years ago. <3 my sister.

[Lindsey]

My favorite vacation is the one I get to take ever single day! My husband is in the USAF and we recently moved to Germany. I'm enjoying sightseeing, trying new foods, meeting new people and regular road trips on a daily basis. <3 such fun!

[Jamie W]

Disneyland with the kids, Maui with the hubby!

[Susan]

Seems my favorite is always the most recent adventure...and the makes France hard to get off my mind. It was an amazing combination of food, wine, photography and art. The best yet!

[amy christine]

my favorite vacation was visiting oahu two summers ago. a friend was born and raised there, so we got an "insider" experience, and it was amazing. so beautiful and relaxing, but also adventurous with a couple hikes and snorkeling. really a perfect vacation. :]

[Amy]

My favorite vacation is to San Clemente, California. We try to go every year. San Clemente is a sleepy little beach town in Orange County. When you think of old school surf city (like the Beach Boys sing about), this is it. It is an enjoyable week of family, friends, food, and of course, the magnificent Pacific Ocean.

[Christa]

My favorite vacation was to Acadia National Park. It was AMAZING!!! The park has the best of both worlds - mountains and ocean. The bike trails were old carriage roads, and we had a blast riding through the park. We also took a mail boat to a small island and stayed at a cozy bed and breakfast for a few days!

[Nancy]

My favorite vacation is the one I am on right now!!! Every vacation is a treat. I love to travel and take pictures, scrapbook them with my scrapbook paper ho's and then go back and look at the albums later. We just left Yellowstone where it snowed for 4 days. Saw bison with babies (so cute!), black bear, grizzlies with babies, pelicans, coyotes, elk, and more bison. Now we are in Seattle where we have a view of the canal from our window. Great sites with opportunities to take photos every day. I am blessed to be able to travel and spend time with my family. And it would be even better if I had a great Epiphanie bag to hold all of my gear. I love your bags!!!!

[Clare]

I just had the most lovely vacation to the Hay on Wye book festival. Just myself and a close friend. Saw so many wonderful things, and heard lots of inspiring authors. Bliss!

[Monica]

My favorite vacation was two months traveling through southeast Asia and Australia after spending two years serving in the peace corps in china. I loved every moment of that journey, but especially two weeks on the island of koh phangan in Thailand.

[Christa]

I would have to say that there gave been some great vacations. My favorite would be an anniversary trip we made to Chicago.

[Tina]

Anywhere that I can put my feet up and have a good book in my lap.

[Andrea]

My favorite trip was to NYC for with my Ginger ephiphanie bag! Lola makes my Disneyland trips heaven, I hope to win a Belle and see where she'll travel with me!!

[Abby - Bright Yellow World]

I haven't been on many vacations - I was a notorious workaholic through my young adulthood. But I'm going on my honeymoon in a week, and I couldn't be more excited!!!

[christa morgenstern]

My favourite vacation was to Istanbul where I was invited to a traditional Turkish wedding. We had to drive to a tiny village 200 km away to pick up the bride who had never seen her husband before. Being from Germany and raised by very modern standards quite strange to me. His mother had arranged the wedding. We took her back to Istanbul and the celebrations went on for one week including a visit to a hairdresser for all female guests together with the bride on the day of the vowels. We had our hair done, our makeup, our nails and all in all had more fun there than on the other days of the wedding. Quite an experience that I will never forget.

[LizV]

Our favorite family vacation was when we all went to the jungle of Peru to serve and build for the beautiful physically-challenged folks of Refugio de Esperanza (Refuge of Hope). Beautiful country. Warm people. Changed lives--mostly ours!

[Wendy]

It was a sunny day with clear crisp air. The mountains were filled with little nestlings and sweet aroma of ripened fruits- just another ordinary morning of the townsfolk of Puli, Taiwan. Geographically situated at the heart of Taiwan, I had a chance to experience the very simple ways of homestay because my Taiwanese friend bumped into her godfather while we were busy shopping along the streets of Taipei. Everything was basic and being away from 'technology' was the best part except the fact that I didn't have my google translator with me for having poor verbal Chinese language. Communication constantly broke down on me but Taiwanese people are so friendly there's no need to panic. Best vacation ever!

[Suzy]

My daughters joined me in Berlin, Germany after I had participated in a seminar last summer. It was their first trip to Europe and we had a wonderful time. We are looking forward to our next trip abroad together!

[SLucy]

My favourite vacation was going to California!!!
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[Regan]

it's a toss-up between nepal and vietnam. both amazing and i hope to go back some day when my kids are older! hopefully i'll have a hot new camera bag to bring with me. :)

[aggie]

The last real vacation I took was in 2004, when I drove from Chicago to New Orleans with my best friend, for Mardi Gras. It remains the high point of relaxing, exhilarating vacations that I've taken in my lifetime.

[ToniM]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michel92/4588789593/in/photostream

We rarely take vacations, but last year the hubby and I got the opportunity to go back to San Diego where we were stationed some 18 years ago.

[Fiona]

My favourite holiday destination (and one of very few, first and only overseas) was Pitumarca in Peru! or Peru in general! I travelled there several years ago to visit my aunt who was working with people in a tiny town in Pitumarca, helping them knit scarves etc. to make money. There was a fantastic, bright and exciting festival when I was there....we couldn't sleep for the noise, there was colour, there was dancing, there was drinking...so much fun! I couldn't believe my luck at being in such a vibrant community, that when I had entered, seemed poor and people seemed without so much. I learnt so much from the people I met when I stayed there, precious time with my aunt and was privileged to spend time in a community that, had I visited myself, would never have visited while in Peru.

[Karen D]

Anywhere by water, ocean or lake, if there are trees around bonus! What a fantastic giveaway

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Karen D

[Geez Louise]

Costa Rica, this past November 2010. Met up with my fiance who was there shooting a travel show and we stayed on after he wrapped. We were on the Pacific side in a town called Nosara where we surfed, relaxed, drank guaro sours, and enjoyed a full moon that lit up the beach like it was almost daytime.

[Jennifer]

We love northern California-the fog in the morning, the sun in the afternoons. The tall pines, the Pacific. Being landlocked in the middle of Texas, it is such a treat to be somewhere so lush and diverse. And we plan on going back this summer! The possibilities with my camera are endless! I hope we get to live there someday!

[Dario Cordova]

Italy, it was beautiful and so different from California, and no I am not trying to win this purse for myself but rather for my cousin who loves these bags apparently.

[Martha Cardenas]

Arizona, I know it's not as sophisticated as some of the other answers that other people are posting, but that is where my son lives and I love being able to go visit and just hang out with him and his wife.

[Alicia]

for our honeymoon, my husband i spent a week in the mountains of colorado with family. the following year, we all came back together for our 1st year anniversary... some film photos of one afternoon seth & i spent enjoying the views...

http://aliandsethinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/08/colorado-in-film.html

[Hayley]

Our Disney Cruise! My first cruise EVER! Wonderful!

[Susannah]

My favorite vacation in the world was in Key West. I just love the place. It is so relaxed, yet so alive! I tend to be a bit clumsy and though I wiped out, my best day was by far the day I threw myself on the ground and skinned my knees - on the second full day of our vacation.
http://recklesssarcasm.blogspot.com/2010/08/little-bit-of-rum-punch-little-bit-of.html

[ajira]

My very brief honeymoon. Stayed in a one room house right on the beach, walking in the sand everyday with my love. Beautiful.

[A Receveur]

Vegas

[Linda Jacobs]

The North Shore of Oahu. We rented a house on Papailoa drive in Haliewa. I'd go back in a second if I could afford it!

[kari]

Yellowstone National Park. The most beautiful place full of amazing animals

[PHope]

My favorite vacation this year was BRAZIL! I went with my hubby, and we met two of my girl friends who traveled down there several days before us. We not only visited the famous Copacabana beach in Rio di Janiero, but we made a side trip to Salvador da Bahia, home of Afro-Brazilian culture. The people, the music, and the food were amazing! We bought a painting that hangs in our living room and reminds us every day of our true adventure!
Photos from the trip: http://petinahopephotography.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/brazil-part-i/

[Sonya]

My favorite vacation is the one that has yet to happen. Over 4th of July I plan on being in Seattle to explore and see a city I have wanted to forever and to celebrate a 41st birthday to its fullest! Thanks for the opportunity to share & to hope for a new camera bag!

[Rachel]

Longboat Key, Florida at a beach and tennis resort....tennis, cycling, sand ,water, sunshine, healthy kids, and yoder's pie....Awesome!!

[Johnalene]

My favorite vacation is our family's yearly gathering in Door County, WI. My in-laws rent a house and all 12 of us stay in one house for a week. It is crazy, chaotic and soooo much fun. I love watching the kids bond with their cousins. The memories made will last forever. So many fantastic pictures have been taken there...sunsets...art projects...family photos...ahh! Can't wait to get there again this year!

[Rachelle F]

My girlfriends destination wedding at an upscale resort in Cabo. Beautiful, relaxing, and memorable. I didn't think I would be able to go but my lucky stars were twinklin, because I would have deeply regretted not seeing that smile on her face as she was walking down the aisle.

[Julie]

I have to say my favorite vacation is when I went to Chicago, IL. I fell in love in this city, it was my first ever vacation with the love of my life. Exploring the depths and amazing places in this city was so exciting and inspiring! I love the food-y scene and all the great restaurants, museums, and buildings!! And talk about tons of events to do. It's spectacular. I will never forget it and it will forever be my favorite city in the U.S.