Are family vacations a thing of the past?

It is very likely that most of our "getaway" moments will be in a tent at K's Dad's lake... it's less than twenty minutes from us but still a little "different." If we do anything really 'away', it would be driving to one of the Missouri state parks for a change of scenery camping. We just can't afford anything else.

We are staying close to home this year!

I read that airline tickets will be going up 15 to 20% just so that the airlines can break even with the increase in gas prices! We won't be taking our yearly road trip to Missouri this year. It is just too expensive.

My oldest son and his family just got back from Mexico a few weeks ago.

I can barely go geocaching cause of the fuel costs. So yeah, I'd say so.

I hope not, our family vacations are some of our best memories. We will still take trips to visit my daughter, but we had another trip planned and we are realizing that we aren't going to get to take it...I'm disappointed.

I know that my husband is saying that we won't be able to take a few trips due to this.

A thing of the past indeed. We are so poor. I am actually flying back up to hicago in 2 weeks...It is going to be a family vacation now, but just me, my son and my mom. We just got back last night from there, from the funeral...I'm exhausted!

I took the quiz and got them all but one right. I misread the one that I missed.

As far as our family vacations, Elliott and I are at my parents' house right now, while my husband is in Texas. He will be back next week, and we will be staying a little more than another week, so I guess that qualifies as a vacation. We drove down, because not only is it the greenest way to travel for us, it's also the cheapest. The Air Force paid for everything this way, too, since my husband is in Texas for training. If he had decided to fly, they wouldn't have paid for tickets for Elliott and me anyway.

We're heading down to WV to visit my family this summer like we usually do and will hit an amusement park in PA. My company's corporate is there and is payign for the park tickets and food. My trip will only cost the gas and some food but it's still so expesive!

We have gone on vacation the last few sumemrs but dont think we will make it to one this year

We will hardly be taking day trips anymore much less vacations with the high cost of gas.

We are still hoping to go to Costa Rica later this year. It will be my Husband & Daughters 1st time going out of the country -so I hope airfare doesn't go sky high~

I felt guilty flying to and from Chicago...we got our tickets a couple months ago...I am thinking that on the 36-passenger flight from Seattle to Portland (30 minutes) they lost money.

Seriously, family vacations can be a bike ride picnic to the local park.

Interesting... I didn't know most of that...

Very interesting. To answer your question, I go on vacation or I go mad.

We will stay close to home this year. thanks for the link

We still go on family vacations and as long as I have breath in my body I will continue to try to. Family is the most important thing in my life so I will sacrifice somewhere else if I have to just to have precious moments in my memory bank!

I am rich in memories and to me that is the most important aspect of life!
great post

We go on holidays as often as we can! Anything from visiting family in Australia, to taking the cross-channel ferry to France for a few days. Petrol is WAAAAY more expensive in the UK than the USA (I think that last time I compared we pay almost three times as much as USA!).

We actually drove from Sioux City, Iowa all the way to Tampa the end of March and came back the first of April, in a truck that usually only gets 11 mpg, but on the highway it got up to 19! I had budgeted $1500 for gas with the way gas prices are, but we only spent a little over $700! So it wasn't so bad... Of course across Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio I was able to get E85 which is considerably cheaper than regular gas too... in fact at the start of the trip, we filled up for $2.43 a gallon when regular gas was $3.19!

I don't know if we will be taking a LOT of trips, but I plan to take a trip in June to west Virginia which we found out should only take like 3 tanks of gas! Most of which will be E85!

I guess the last vacation I took was to Florida to see my son. Only had $180. to get there and back with a gasoline credit card. Lots of sandwich meat and condiments in ice chest to stop at roadside parks and eat, use bathroom. maybe freshen up some.
Drove all the way to Gulfport Mississippi before we stopped. Could have goten farther if we hadnt gotten stuck on that seemed like 25 mile long bridge in Louisanna over the swamp. a wreck and blinding rain too. I enjoyed the trip other than that.

At my job ( a vacation company) we are suprisingly booking as many trips as normal. People are still calling in for last minute trips and not too many people are saying anything about the gas prices.
I know that we were planning on driving to Las Vegas this year, but changed our mind and bought cheap airline tix for only $219 per person. Still a lot for 7 people, but when you factor in hw much gas would have been, plus hotel costs on a road trip like that, we made out better!

Well, anything can be fun if planned right even an outside backyard camping trip or small day trips around your town or city. I used to do this with my nieces when they were little -just do fun things around town - exploring the library and getting to know how to use a copy machine, going to local museums, spending hours in the graveyards...simple things can be fun and don't cost much. Salud.

I don't remember my last vacation.

I don't know if it will be vocation, but I definitely need to go see my paretns to Europe. Yeah it migth be expensive, but they might not to be here long , so it is worth it. I am sure I will be paying some crazy money for ticket.

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Thanks Priscilla~

My husband and I, realizing we were growing apart and in danger of losing our family, left our old life and traveled for 2 years with our kids in a motor home. In a drastic effort to correct the course we were on, we left a great home, community, careers, etc. in Asheville, NC, and leapt, hoping the net would appear, for parts unknown. The image I had then was of our family standing naked on the edge of a cliff!

We had so many crazy adventures...like the time a tornado almost lifted our RV off the ground outside of Houston, and the time we carried an injured Loggerhead Sea Turtle in the back of our car 27 miles up the beach to the turtle lab at Padre Island! We traveled from Virginia to Arizona, spending as much as 5 months in one location depending on what we felt our intuition was telling us.

It was an amazing opportunity to re-weave our connections to each other, drop out of what society expected of us, and solidify our family. Our story can be found at www.berrytrip.us, and a short version of the tale was just published in Jack Canfield's new Law of Attraction book!