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[quote=Anonymous]Are your international/50 state/NP goals going to overlap with your 4 annual trips ? That is, so you want to go to the same lake each year or do you want to find a lake in a new state every year? Does skiing in Europe meet two goals?

How do you feel about your kids missing school to travel? Do you have family you need to visit? How much time can you take off work? How will you prioritize kids activities as they get older (e.g. my kid is starting a sport that has daily practice over spring break)? Are your kids easy travelers (ie, will these trips be enjoyable for everyone?)

I have the complicating factor that I’m divorced, so splitting the kids’ time off school. The terms of our custody agreement also prevent taking the kids out of school for leisure travel. So for us-this wouldn’t work at all. For our family, Spring Break and Winter Break are often used for visiting family. We usually do a week at the same beach each summer, and then a week doing something new (sometimes we skip the beach if we want to do a longer trip somewhere.) My kids are 12 and 9-we were planning to do our first big international trip in 2020 (when they were 6 and 9) but that got canceled and with uncertainty and travel chaos I’ve put off rescheduling it. Looking at next year. We usually do some long weekend trips. This is the first year I’m looking at traveling over winter break that isn’t family related, and plan to make that a more regular thing. So for us it would be:
1 summer adventure (new place each time)
1 week at the beach in August
Winter Break trip every other year (new place each time)
And some long weekends sprinkled in
I usually also do a 4-5 day trip without the kids, with friends every year. Id love to do more though-I envy the vacation time and money you must have available!!

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