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[quote=Anonymous]We make about 140K. I am lucky in that after 20 years at my job I get 5 weeks of vacation. But vacations are my weak spot in budgeting - I HATE spending a week off at home, so if I don't have money saved, I put it on the credit card. Life is short. I have relatives, co-workers and older siblings who are reminders to live now, because health stuff can strike and you might NEVER get to do all the things you put off until retirement. 
Before kids, we used to go on one scuba or European trip a year. Free airfare using frequent flier miles, and try to find a week long hotel-dive package for around 1000 pp.  Plus equipment rental and dinners. Then we'd sail on our boat up and down the Bay, or visit friends, or work on the house, the rest of the weeks.  Tickets to California were cheap then. So maybe 3500 per year.
Fortunately or unfortunately, my family lives in California. DH's mom is also out West.  So now that we have kids and fares are higher we have to budget about 1600 per year just to fly back there, and lately we've been staying at vacation rentals with other family or a hotel because even though there is space, my parents are elderly and need their rest from active noisy kids. 
Other trips we try to find affordable rentals and drive, stay with friends part of the time, look for cheap flights etc. For example, you can find condos in Williamsburg, Orlando, Sanibel or a Victorian in Chincoteague for about 1000/week.  You can stay ate a friend's in NYC and then get a cabin for a few nights. We plan to use the boat  more again when both kids can swim well. The kids do not have passports yet and we don't ski, so that is saving us some money. Last 2 vacations were kind of pricey - airfare, nice resort hotels with waterslide pools in prime season. I did save a little with a hotel Bloomspot offer. 
So this year I figure 2600 plus 3 cheap or shorter partial week trips at 500 per, 4100 a year.

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