What are your travel regrets?

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Anonymous wrote:Any travel with kids. Not worth the $$$

Absolutely not. My travels with my son (starting when he was 5; he's 17 now) are the highlights of his childhood. He will travel more in the future without me, and he is more accepting of foreign people and cultures than many Americans. He is curious. He is cultured.

Sure, some of the trips were expensive, but that's not the point. Sure, you have to change the trip to meet the needs of an X year old -- it's not the trip that you would take on your own -- but it can still be a great trip.

x1000

I love traveling with my kids. Not the same as traveling alone/with adults, but still fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Any travel with kids. Not worth the $$$

Absolutely not. My travels with my son (starting when he was 5; he's 17 now) are the highlights of his childhood. He will travel more in the future without me, and he is more accepting of foreign people and cultures than many Americans. He is curious. He is cultured.

Sure, some of the trips were expensive, but that's not the point. Sure, you have to change the trip to meet the needs of an X year old -- it's not the trip that you would take on your own -- but it can still be a great trip.

I love traveling. I’m also from another country. It annoys me, however, when people assume travel equals being cultured. That’s a) a rather privileged take and b) assumes that people who travel are actually open to the cultures they visit (vs patronizing towards them) and people who don’t are all close minded. That’s not always the case.

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Taking my child in a rafting trip, where we came close to drowning

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Every trip taken during school breaks has been miserable. The crowds, high prices and inevitable stress is not worth it. Now we stay close to home and travel during the school year. Shorter trips, one or two missed days of school, it is worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not taking my DS to visit paternal grandparents (my ex’s parents) in Israel when he was still a child. His grandmother often asked us to visit. We would have gone alone, without his dad who was not really involved with him. So a little awkward since I had only met ex’s parents a couple of times. But it was more that there always seemed to be instability, threat of war, bombings, in Israel, that I was worried about travelling alone with a child. I am not Jewish and do not have any other family or friends in Israel. Thought I would wait until he was 12 or older to visit but life got busier, harder to take out of school, then pandemic, and now he’s 18 and could go on his own I guess.

He could probably do birth right.

Is this true even if mom is not Jewish? His dad was born in Israel. Interesting idea that I have never considered. Will look into it.

Can you do this as an adult?

Check the rules but I don't think they discriminate on which parent is jewish.

Correct- one Jewish parent is enough. I had a friend (with one Jewish parent) who went on a trip and there were like 5 other people on the trip also with one Jewish parent- mother or father doesn't matter. Frankly they are a marketing/political organization and if you have one Jewish parent you are in their target demo.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking back, things that you wish you'd done while you had the chance?

I wish DH and I had taken the hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia. At the time (15 years ago), it was $200 per person and we balked at the cost. We could afford it, just got a little too penny pinching.

SAME!! It was 175 and I was 23 and just couldn’t justify it.

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Like many others have said, having an opportunity to travel and not traveling because of work, deadlines, commitments, etc.