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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I traveled a lot as a kid, and took one special trip in particular that's on par with your Asia trip. I was probably acting bored and annoyed half the time, like kids do. A couple of years later I began to look back fondly on the trip, and now as an adult I consider it one of the best events of my childhood - I now recognize how lucky I was to have that experience, and hope to do the same for my kids when they are a little older.[/quote]

This!

My parents scrimped and saved to take all five (!) kids on a two month trip to Japan.  It was truly a trip of a lifetime, several weeks travelling through the mainland from Tokyo through Fukuoka, travel on the bullet train, a week in Kyoto, week in Okinawa and several weeks with grandparents and relatives on Miyakojima.

I appreciated it a bit mor thsn your son.  However, as a 11 year old I thought if I had to sit quietly and stare at one more rock garden or koi pond my head would explode.

My favorite things were shopping for souveniers or going to the beach at the tail end of the trip. Oh, and the Oban parade. All the temples, castles, special meals and treats, were lost on me and my siblings.  There were things we all really enjoyed, but you would not know it from our eye rolling and repeated questions of "Are we done yet and can we go find a toy store now?"  I remember arguing with our parents who would not let us go to McDonalds to get burgers and instead took us to get sushi or something traditional.

My younger siblings just wanted to go to the toy stores.

I and all of my sibkings actually have fantastic memories of that trip, and are so grateful our parents took us, but you would not have known it as the time.
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