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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My extended aunts/uncles all just got their inheritance and retirement and it’s nauseating - we were solid MC families who did road trip vacations and maybe one flight a year… now they’re planning month- long tours of a continent

I’ve been a traveler my entire adult life, I’m not jealous just annoyed by it all [/quote]

yes you sound jealous.  They are excited to be able to travel, and likely want to do what they can while they are still healthy and physically able to do it all.  I'd be excited to to get that at any age.

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Ok maybe I do sound jealous, but I’m not - I travel too. The point goes back to the OP who sounded annoyed by the tone of it all, bragging and one-upping each other which I wasn’t clear about being my issue here.

If my extended family was genuinely sharing their plans and experiences I too love that conversation (and it’s what I do with my friends), but they’re not.  The conversation is just trying to battle who has the grander plan without any substance, now that they’re rich from their parents passing (my grandparents).  I guess it’s better than politics discussion [/quote]

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