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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So do most people not travel during holidays, spring break, and summer?! Just sene kids to camp?[/quote]
We travel for holidays to visit family - so NY for Thanksgiving and NC for Christmas. Neither one costs us money besides gas and tolls.

We travel for spring break but keep it somewhere driving distance. Cabin in the mountains, Charleston, Williamsburg, etc.

In the summer our kids are in camp because both parents work full time. There is a week between camps closing down and school starting - we visit the NC relatives at the beach normally.

Yes, we could get more culture elsewhere but our kids are on the young side and I didn’t really want to fly before they were vaccinated.  It’s always interesting to hear budgets from other households - we are at $300k HHI and our travel budget is maybe $1k a year. [/quote]

Well yeah. If you have relatives with a beach house and can drive to family it’s way cheaper.

What do you do with kids for a week in the mountains? We like hiking (did Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon all before kids) but they are up for a day of hiking, maybe two if we are camping. A week would end in madness. [/quote]
We do lots of shorter hikes; we get a place with a hot tub and keep the temp low so they can spend time in there; they bring soccer balls and footballs and play like they would at home in our back yard. We fly drones and gliders, drive remote control trucks and make the kids chase them. We set off those mini rockets.  They have fun playing with toy figures in a new space so they set up battles between transformers and Pokémon or whatever they are in to.  We roast s’mores over a fire. We don’t always go for a full week; we come home a few days early so they can have true downtime before school, have play dates with friends etc.[/quote]

That sounds delightful. We should invest in some of those gadgets![/quote]

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