Johndanielscpa wrote:
When I "vacation," I like to relax. If I am in THAT much of a hurry to get somewhere, I would rather just fly and stay in hotels.
If my parents had taken that approach, I wouldn't have visited all of the lower 48 states before I graduated high school.
They could never have afforded plane tickets, hotel rooms, and rental cars to all of those states. A van and trailer, however, meant my mom and dad (and me, once I got my learner's permit and then license) could take turns driving through the plains states that we had already seen, and get to Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, etc.
Hell, I visited Yellowstone three times by the time I was 17. I went to Acadia twice as a kid. I saw the Grand Canyon at 12. I camped in British Columbia and Banff when I was 13. Most kids in my class (Indiana) had never been farther west than St. Louis or father east than Cincinnati.
When you are working parents who want to show this great country to your kids, making the most of the short time off you have is the most efficient way to do it.
