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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So jealous of some family that take 5 exclusive trips a year.  It is just too expensive for us.  We have kids and with the cost of college rising we just don't have enough.  And travel prices are so expensive now.  I don't know how people do it.  My husband and I both work tirelessly and still can't get by.  [/quote]

I love to travel, but "5 exclusive trips a year" sounds exhausting.[/quote]

What is exhausting about it? We travel frequently, more than 5 trips a year, there is nothing exhausting about it.  People make travel a thousand times more difficult than it needs to be.   DH just booked a trip in to Europe for mid March,  it took him about an hour.   Packing takes about an hour, including helping DS.  
Takes about an hour to get to airport, throw in an hour of fluff time, we are talking a 4 hour investment before we get into airport.

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Sounds like you just have one kid? That’s why it’s easy![/quote]

Yes, the travel itself isn’t complicated, but work, family, kids activities/sports, and travel becomes a little bit of a chore- especially if you’re jet setting all over the globe on “exclusive” trips.  We fly for vacation about once a year, maybe twice sometimes.  We have done a lot of trips out west- my favorite, but sprinkle in an overseas trip once in a while.  Other than that, it’s road-trips to see family, localish camping, the beach…etc.  My kids, IMHO, have been on some great trips- Europe a couple times, Caribbean, Canada, and all over the west.  Still their favorite vacations are our trips to Outer Banks with their grandparents and cousins.  They actually embrace the simplicity of it- beach, fishing, kayaking, volleyball games.  I say this for those that are envious of expensive fat-flung trips.  Sure, there are great aspects to these trips, but a Facebook feed highlighting these travels probably isn’t healthy.[/quote]

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