It will always be different. The first time is awesome because everything is new and unexpected. Later trips are awesome because you know so many people and and there's a "coming home" feeling. Don't try to make each trip "better than the last"--nothing can ever live up to that! Our sixth trip will be this July.
This May will be our 5th trip to TTR.. Our first trip was in 2011 when we got engaged there.. We missed 2012 because we got married and then we have been back every year since..
It will always be different. The first time is awesome because everything is new and unexpected. Later trips are awesome because you know so many people and and there's a "coming home" feeling. Don't try to make each trip "better than the last"--nothing can ever live up to that! Our third trip will be this April. Summerbum, we apologize for plagiarizing your post but you really nailed it for us too, we've said the same numerous times.
There is a well known Canadian dude who arrives either Dec 31 or Jan 1 and stays for a month every single year. Dancing Sean is his name and he is a January Icon. And long time vets may remember, or newbies may have heard of, the much envied, Pedro who actually moved in, and lived at Mecca for, I think/believe almost 2 yrs. (My memory may be obsured by the damage/ by-product of Caesar Sunday!) If I ever get read the riot act by a medical doctor.....I will spend my last good days at the premiere bar.....and hopefully I will have convinced TTR management to have built the mausoleum by then, (and believe me I have campaigned for this, for over 5yrs) and I can be put in my final resting place just adjacent to the Sexy Pool for all of eternity.
Ohh.. And our stats are currently. 23 trips 212 nights Over 9 years And our PB is 5 tips in 2014 Which is all a drop in the bucket, compared to many hardcore regs we have met and know, who have all contributed to fostering/supporting/bulding/ evolving the culture of the place we all Love! I call them 'The Pioneers' And always thank those with a long multiple history, for instilling and adhereing to the ambience and maintaining the unique spirit of TTR. And for keeping the joint vibrant and growing, via patronage and 'word of mouth' so that newbiies can discover it and claim as their own