Question: Did your family spend vacations together?

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Answer #1:

Sounds like fun. Yes we have always traveled together as a family. We would split the cost of the room so we could upgrade. I miss those days now that everyone is grown or has died. Once we got adjoining rooms and threw my brother and the kids in one room while we ladies had the other.

Answer #2:

nope, as a kid we never had vacations.
last year dad took the family to the beach. i was left in the apartment all day while they were at the beach. had so much fun. they are going again this year and can't understand why i don't want to go. i would rather stay home with my dog and see people.

Answer #3:

Yeah I love those long car trips to Florida. Usually two packed cars on convoy. Loads of fun. We went other places too. I tried to do the same with mine but it was just to hard to get off at the same time.
We did have some good trips though.

Answer #4:

Many families still do this. My family went camping each summer for a week, even if it was in a campground in our own town. We also took trips to Colorado and Florida. We still try to take trips together now what we are all grown up and moved out of the house (and married or getting married), but not everyone can make it anymore. When my siblings and I start having children of our own, we plan to continue to take family vacations with our own families.

Answer #5:

When I was a young one we would go up north to our cabin on Higgins Lake (MI) and my Dad would leave my Mom and brother and sister there for a week while he when back to work. We didn't have a car or electricity at the time. We would go to the store in a small boat that was about a mile away. We had kerosene lamps for light at night. After I got married years later we would take our kids and go camping in the northern lower part of Michigan.

Answer #6:

We use to!, mostly at the seaside, camping, but now a days, we all go different ways. The kids like foreign travel, and the mother and I still like jumping into the car, and going exploring?...

Answer #7:

In Scotland our whole family of Uncles, Aunts, Cousins and siblings would all pile on to a train and travel to a sea resort and spend happy holidays together.
Ah, the good old days.

Answer #8:

My family was so caught up in to working hard just to make ends meet. We never went any place.

Answer #9:

I can remember two vacations my parents took with my sister and I when I was a kid. Both times we drove from eastern Ohio to central Florida (before Disney). The second trip was in preparation for our move to that area.

My dad often worked two jobs when I was growing up. When we moved to Florida (on my 9th birthday) my dad got us settled and then worked for two years in Vietnam. After he came home from 'Nam, he often traveled for weeks at a time for his work, or else took on extra work.

We did spend some weekends at the beach, and once Disney opened my parents took us there, spending New Years Eve at Disney World was a neighborhood 'tradition' for about 4 years. I don't think my mom liked to travel that much.

I think it is great that your dad took a week off each summer. My dad didn't or couldn't do that. He had commitments to his own family and also to care for his mom and some cousins of his. Not everyone was without commitments 'back then'.

Answer #10:

Yes.
No matter where we lived, we always drove to see the grandparents states away.
Mom & Dad had the front seat with the cooler of food.
I got the back seat floor. (With suit cases to even out where the center hump was.)
My two older sisters had the back seat.
My little brother laid in the back window. (No seat belt laws back then.)

We each had our own coffee can with lid for... And we were given a blanket to put over us for privacy if we needed to use the can.

We stopped at any place "military" to hear the history. That was very boring for me.

The parents would stay one week at grandparents then I don't know where they went but us kids got to stay another 3 weeks there. That was GREAT! So much exploring to do in the country & eat grandma's fresh cooking from the garden. We'd go swimming in streams that ran into swimming holes. The watermelon was put in the shallow part of the stream to cool while we swam.

We heard the same jokes from grandpa year after year & laughed everytime.

When the parents came back, Dad would lead us on nature excursions & taught us a lot about the outdoors, safety, & first aide. In a military, field dressing sort of way.

Then there was that long ride back home. A day or two depending on which state we lived in.

Answer #11:

Their idea of a vacation was to go somewhere, in state or out and visit relatives. Or do things locally like go to a lake, but we never stayed overnight.

Answer #12:

We did and still do, from time to time it's wonderful.

Answer #13:

What a wonderful stroll I just had down memory. Daddy had a service station and worked 6 1/2 days a week - the other 1/2 was for Sunday school and church. But he always took a week off in the summer to go on a vacation. Daddy, Mother, me and my older sister. We went to Hot Springs, Arkansas; Beavers Bend in Oklahoma; Turner Falls; many times to Colorado. We all loved the mountains. Fairly short drives from Texas. Daddy was notorious for making things FUN. No matter where we went or what we did. When my sister married, she missed out on the other longer trips - Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Tetons; Carlsbad Caverns. And my very last trip with them was the summer before I married. He booked a flight to Mexico City, had reservations at the Maria Isabella (or is it Isabell) and hired a guide to show us all the sights. What an adventure. My first time to fly in a jet. WOW!

Thanks for the stroll.

Answer #14:

Up until the very end.

Answer #15:

My Dad farmed and had dairy cows so there was no vacation for anyone but me. I was able to go to my grandparents house for a week or two every summer. But everyone else stayed home. I was the youngest.

Answer #16:

The Soo is my home town.
Yes, my wife and 2 sons would go camping at the Amelia County Camp Ground west of Richmond especially for blue grass festivals.
After my youngest got married, his wife's family had a family reunion at the same camp ground. When my wife and I got up there he said that the place really looked familiar. Then I told him why. Was he surprised! His wife's great aunt & uncle own the camp site.
When we were stationed in Sardinia (large island off the west coast of Italy, north of Sicily) we used to go camping. No camp grounds, we just pitched our tents near the ocean. I'd tie my American flag to the center pole which drew folks to our camp site and we met all kinds of folks from all over Europe and had a blast! Once we drove to the southern end of the island for a week of 'rough camping'. We even camped one night along the way in an empty field. Around 6 a.m. I heard one of those 3 wheeled pick-ups come along. I flagged him down and asked who owned the land (over looking a beautiful valley). The man said he did, and I asked how much I owed him for camping there. He said to just not leave any mess. My wife gave him 3 packs of Marlboros (they cost $2 a carton on the ship), shook hands and he went on his way. We made sure NOTHING was left behind.





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