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

[Susan]

Well this is good timing... I just got a shiny new DSLR camera for my 40th birthday this past weekend and was just checking out these bags a few hours ago on her website!

So I'll throw in my name and keep my fingers crossed to be so lucky!

My favorite vacation to date was the summer my partner and I took 2 months to drive across Canada and back to see our amazing country and people. We got to visit family along the way, be part of my best friend's wedding and spent almost every night in our tent camping along the way.. it was the best! Just wish I had that fancy camera with me at the time... the next trip!

Thanks for the chance!

[Karin]

My favourite vacation.. I think, I hope, I plan that it's going to be this summer's vacation. We are going to a little house in the middle of a forest,near an estate where they ecologically grow vegetables. We can use the vegetables we need, there is a large stone oven to bake our bread and pizzas and for the rest there is almost nothing. And that's what we are looking forward to. Just the five of us, waking up, building tree houses, play in water and dirt and do absolutely, blissfully, wonderfully nothing. I can't wait.

What a great and generous giveaway!

[Tepary]

The most recent always. Actually, we rarely take proper vacations, so this may be one of the few real vacations. We got back a couple of weeks ago from Italy. We were there for my husband's work, but prior to work, there was a little play. We visited the Italian and French Alps before returning via Cinque Terre to Florence. Spectacular. Some photos here http://growfamilygrow.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/eurocamp/
http://growfamilygrow.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/thoughts-upon-revisiting-florence/

[Rebecca Weaver]

My favorite vacation - a tie between Plymouth, MA and the Outerbanks. And of course, the place we haven't gone yet...

[kimberly lc]

My favorite vacation was going to Kauai for our first anniversary. Our honeymoon was a bit of a disaster so that do-over was extra special.

[Little Miss Joey]

My favourite holiday was my most recent one. It was with Mum and Dad and little brother. We didn't go anywhere fancy, just the Algarve, in Portugal (where I'm from), but the chance to have a family holiday as an holiday... oh my... it was just perfect to be able to spend so much time with Mum and Dad and my brother away from real life.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlemissjoey/sets/72157626561562014/

For context, I live in Oxford, UK, little brother in Lisbon, Portugal, and Mum and Dad in Porto, Portugal :)
So it does mean a lot :)

[Mountdrago]

My favorite vacation was three weeks we spent staying in cottages and apartments in Provence and the Riviera. Perfect weather, perfect food and just a lot of relaxing.

[Jenna/The Word Cellar]

My favorite vacation was the trip my husband and I took to Costa Rica nine years ago. I won the trip from a radio station about nine months before we got married, and we took the trip as a honeymoon. [Yes, apparently people really do win radio station giveaways! Maybe my luck will carry over today. :) ]

[cigi]

My favorite vacation included renting a car and driving through England and Scotland for two weeks. It was quite the adventure!

[suzie]

I can't choose between bodyboarding the breakers at Biarritz or snorkelling in the Costa Brava. Probably the Costa Brava as we also visited Barcelona and Salvador Dali's castle at Pubol. A brilliant holiday!

[Anne T.]

My favorite vacation would have to be my honeymoon to San Francisco. We live in Maine and didn't have enough money for our dream trip to Italy, so we decided to go out to the West Coast. Had a fabulous time exploring in the city and took lots of day trips. Spent time in Muir Woods, which was breathtaking, and enjoyed sunny afternoons touring wineries in Napa and Sonoma. Such an incredibly fun trip for my husband and I that we almost wanted to move there. Lots of great memories. Thanks for the chance to win.

[Sandra]

My favourite vacation 'til now has to be Indonesia! :) Love the people and culture there and Bali is just sooooo beautiful! :D

[playcrane]

My husband and I do not live near our families so our vacations usually involve traveling to visit them. But a few years ago we took our 2 kids and went on first actual family vacation to Savannah GA and the GA beach. Just the 4 of us for a whole week. Such a precious memory.

[Loreena]

My unforgettable, most FAVOURITE vacation EVER....... was a 3 week long camping trip through Central Australia. Our kids were much younger and they don't remember much of it and I'd love to do it all again, only longer next time, maybe even for a year touring this amazing country!! We got to visit Uluru, see the most AMAZING waterfalls, wetlands, aboriginal culture experiences, super awesome wildlife, see the desert, salt lakes, drive for hundreds of kilometres between towns that consisted of a couple of houses and a pub and general store! MAN I wish I knew then what I know now about photography! I've always wanted to travel overseas and before kids we even booked a trip to the US but circumstances meant we couldn't go, but I swear, I am now determined to see as much of Australia as I can before we travel elsewhere, because we're blessed with awesome awesome nature here, and most of the remote places are the most awesome :)

[Leah]

My favorite vacation was Birch Bay WA last summer. One blissful week at the beach with my then 2 year old twins.
Awesome giveaway! Thanks for the chance.

[Lisa]

My favorite vacation is pretty much any where with my family. We've had fun in Mexico, San Antonio, Orlando......it's the best as long as we're together. My dream vacation would be Greece!

[Marcie]

Favorite vacation spots??
The mountains in Vermont...the oceans in Maine.

[jo lincolne]

Italy-need I say more???

[gosia]

Every holiday is my favorite holiday. Last month, I’ve spent 3 weeks with my mom and my daughter (1) in a small village in Poland. This was such an amazing time – no internet, no mobile connection, no TV, just the three of us, spending time together, talking, playing, walking through these amazing forests, listening to the birds singing. But most of all – the fact that we could spend this time together and really enjoy our company :)

[Jennifer Butterfield]

Favorite vacation was Hawaii... its been a few years, but that was my (and the rest of my family's) favorite trip. We were so relaxed, we had almost 2 weeks to spend just doing whatever we liked and LOTS of beach time!

[Trish]

My favourite vacation was last year to Portugal. Our kids had turned 16 and 13, real teenagers!!! But our week in Portugal was heaven - no texting, no laptops, no dropping here and collecting here. The four of us had a lovely time together - long chats and just chillin out.

[katie]

My husband and i went to Montreal last summer sans kids. It was great - so much to see and do and eat!

[jothewiz]

My favorite vacation is Black Perigord (Les Eyzies particularly), a gorgeous place in South West of France with plenty of beautiful villages to visit , rivers to swim in and do canoeing , caves to visit , and this is the place to eat gorgeous and healthy food, drink wine and above all: this is the place to take wonderful photos.
When I am there I feel at home.

[Johanna]

This made me think. My favorite vacation might be the last one in my late Grandmother's house, as I could soak everything in and show it to my then-boyfriend-now-husband. It was special.

[DanaN]

The best vacation was when my parents and I visited my sister in Boston. The sightseeing, the food, the shopping - it was a fun filled week that I'll never forget.

[Jess]

My favorite vacation is to sweet little Story Land in New Hampshire. I can only get a couple more years out of it, since my youngest is just three.

[jo marks]

My favourite holiday was our honeymoon in Borneo - i felt so brave as i tried many new things ... snorkelling in the south china sea; hiring a TINY car and driving to teeny villages, finding an amazing waterfall in the middle of nowhere and being centimetres away from an Orang Utan at Sepilok Orang Utan Sactuary - it was an amazing trip!

[Stephanie Meckfessel (keenemomma)]

My favorite vacation is a do-nothing, walk-through-town, take-photos-of-sunsets and banyan trees kind of weekend in Boca Grande, Florida, just a couple of hours from home. Bliss.

[ScrappBarb]

My favorite recent vacation was last summer when we went sailing in the Chesapeake Bay for several days. A sailboat at night is very peaceful. It was our first big vacation with teenagers and it was great to work together as a family to keep sailing along. Thank you for the chance to win one of these cool bags.

[Sarah]

My favourite vacation destination has to be Tahiti - went there a few years ago - it was paradise! But recently I went trekking in Nepal. This is one of my favourite shots from the trip:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20426287@N08/5679187488/in/set-72157626628039468

[Lindsey]

This May, my family and I all went down to Miami. We were fortunate enough to do up the vacation and do everything that we wanted to. Everywhere we went, I was armed with my Canon Rebel T3i, but also with a quite unattractive camera bag. I love the Epiphanie bags!!! Someday I hope to tote my DSLR in one. Till then, I'll look at this photo and remember the beautiful landscape of the Miami beach.

[s.patel]

one of my favorite vacations ever was visiting acadia national park in maine. i love going to the national parks off-season to avoid the crowds and to see the parks in different light/weather than they are typically seen. acadia was beautiful, serene and just what i needed!

[lifeineden]

I still have a soft spot for the Jersey Shore (but the pretty spots!). I spent my childhood vacations there and just last year took our kids. Nothing like tradition.

[Christineellen]

My favorite vacation was a cruise I took with my husband. We went to Jamacia, Grand Cayman and the Fl Keys, it was wonderful!

[Mandi]

Hands down, our trip to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is still my favorite vacation of all time. It was really the most relaxed I've ever been in my life. This summer we're going to try to replicate that beach vacation feeling in the Canary Islands. Can't wait!

[Tracy Sutherland]

Vacations are always great! If I had to chose I would say the time we went to Honduras was the best, but I can't think of a bad one.

[Misty]

Camping. National parks with tents and canoes, bikes and camp fires. On our honeymoon and now with the kids.

[jennifer]

Aruba, Aruba, Aruba! Went with friends for my 40th birthday. Very casual, mellow-loved it! Awesome little island and great people.

[urban muser]

My husband and I took an amazing trip to Vietnam a few years ago. I think I took over 2000 photos!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52504401@N03/4938005626/
Great giveaway, thanks for the chance!

[Sarah]

My favorite vacation so far was a trip I took to Istanbul years ago with my best friend. It is unlike anywhere I had been before or since and getting there was half the fun. Everything was an experience, from our meals to the people we met.

[Barbi]

My favorite vacation so far has been Ireland. I had always wanted to go and so for my hubbies and my 20th year together I got to pick our destination. So off to beautiful Ireland we went!

[brigitte graney]

My favorite vacation.....a trip to several European countries, Holland, Belgium, Italy, and France.

[Nonie]

I went to Charleston SC/Folly Beach about a month ago and fell in love. I went with someone very special to me, and with NO KIDS! It was the BEST WEEKEND EVER! Broke my heart a little to come home. I will be going back.. I ♥ the ocean..

[Ginny]

My favorite vacation so far was when we went cruising and stopped at a place called Isle of Pines in New Caledonia. It was such a gorgeous place and so restful. I hope we will be able to go back some day.

[Kathryn Dyche Dechairo]

I just got back from a vacation to Yellowstone . . . one of my favorites so far.

http://dychedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/05/yellowstone-part-one.html

http://dychedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/06/yellowstone-part-two.html

Great giveaway.

[bella]

Had so much fun at Lake George, NY last summer, that we're going again this year!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cirovic/sets/72157624740412620/

[Erin]

Bermuda! My husband and I were married there and are planning to go back in July to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. It is a very special place for me. I would love to have a such a stylish camera bag for our trip!

[starrlife]

My favorite vaca was my honeymoon trip to Cape Breton. We had some great adventures, the start of many while we've been married. One of the adventures is memorialized in this post, The Cats Meow, http://wp.me/pgY75-6U.
Oh how I would LOVE and Epiphanie bag! I've been scraping together my nickels and dimes....

[Jessie]

By far my favorite vacations happened after kids. Before they were very romantic or adventurous but since they fill me with so much inner joy. Seeing things through their eyes and reliving my childhood with the goofy things they want to do is the best! My husband travels most of the year but one week in September we head to Topsail Island and relax. We stay on the ocean so it is the first thing we hear in the morning and last thing before we go to bed. The girls seem to get a long better, my husband and I reconnect, and the icing on the cake is we all enjoy sand castle building and shark tooth hunting which is abundant for some reason in that area. In fact we just booked our vacation yesterday for this year. I.can't.wait! Thanks for the chance to win la la la la LOLA - awesome!

[Alison]

Last summer my husband and I flew to San Fran, rented a car and headed north up the coast. Two weeks and we had the most fabulous time - camping, seeing the sights, eating well, drinking well, visiting friends and greeting the ocean. I would repeat that trip every week for a long time before tiring of it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alisonbehm/sets/72157624393681077/