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Is it just me or are vacations getting out of control?
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When I was a kid we did the “usual” vacations; the beach, camping, Washington DC, amusement parks, visiting family etc. We took an occasional big trip once to California and once to NYC, twice to the Bahamas. I didn’t travel abroad until college and my 20’s. It was fun but after a while one European village started looking like the next one. Now my kids come home from school all the time and tell me “so and so is going to the Galapagos.” My neighbors just spent 30k going to Japan with their young kids. One of my kid’s friends just got back from New Zealand sabbatical.
When we go places with my two boys, they don’t seem all that impressed, so I’d rather not take huge long flights with them. They were bored at the biltmore castle, for example. 😳
Am I the only one who seems content to just take smaller trips?
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How far in advance do you plan your vacations?
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Just booked a rural house in the mountains 3h drive from home for august and was EXTREMELY lucky to find something at all. Everything already booked months in advance.
How do you do it everyone?
Top Comment: I've done it from a couple days out to about a year. I don't plan domestic stuff until much closer, international tends to be 3-6 months out. Granted, I have a rough idea of places I'm going and timeframe 1-2 years out, but don't generally act on them