The ever rising cost of taking the family vacation

[Hertervillian]

My elk hunting addiction has been labeled "dad taking the family vacation".

Last year I took the vacation. The wife demanded reparations. This year I'll take her somewhere and go along. She's been pretty good about the whole thing over the years.

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[eveled]

Being a family man is full of sacrifices.

 

[contender]

Nice elk tooth bracelet. Miss Penny wears a necklace, a set of earrings, and a ring with them. They came from my elk.

Geez,, didn't your wife enjoy the elk hunt??

 

[Hertervillian]

Nice elk tooth bracelet. Miss Penny wears a necklace, a set of earrings, and a ring with them. They came from my elk.

Geez,, didn't your wife enjoy the elk hunt??

She's more pleased now

 

[contender]

I take it she didn't enjoy packing out elk meat???

 

[Hertervillian]

She would have been game 30 years ago, maybe. Mountains, horses, roasting marshmallows, sleeping late, drinking coffee by a campfire is all right up her alley. In the meantime she's lost much of her vision and with it went a fair amount of self confidence.

 

[gnappi]

Years ago I bought my dad a rifle to go on an Elk hunt with his brother and I but he didn't want to go. He sold the rifle so he and my mom could go out for lobster dinners instead and said the Lobster were better than Elk!

My Elk is still in the wild.

 

[GasGuzzler]

What are vacation?

 

[375hh1973]

What are vacation?

That thing you do where you dont go to work for a little while. Maybe go somewhere nice and relaxing.

Some are taken with the wife, some are to go hunting.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

What are vacation?

It's when you don't go to work....but stay home and work via corporate cell phone and laptop in between doing projects around the house you don't have time to do because of going to work.

Although.....I did hit the Ky Bourbon Trail last year for a couple days.....still though with corporate cell constantly buzzing and laptop fired up in hotel rooms at night/mornings.

The only vacations I get away from the chaos is called Leave of Absence after surgeries......can't wait for the big vacation they call retirement (never thought I would ever say that but may be forced into it).

 

[contender]

I was having a little fun with my comments about your wife & elk hunting.

Each person has their own idea of a "vacation" and it can be interesting to see the compromises. But as long as each person enjoys all or at least some of it,, well, then it's a good thing.

gnappi,, elk or lobster. I go diving & catch my own lobsters,, and I've taken elk. Both are very good eating. But I think a whole elk, which can be savored over a LOT of meals,, vs a lobster dinner or two maybe,, would win the contest of what we'd enjoy!

 

[RoninPA]

We (the wife and I) haven't taken a true vacation, where we drive or fly to someplace that we've wanted to go to and plan our day each morning in a pretty long time. Now we take mini vacations throughout the year (OGCA show in July, The Gathering in October, Tulsa show in November, Huntsville show in January). We add a few days at each one and go to places when we're there to see sights that we like or haven't seen before but heard about. That gets us out of the house and our routine and lets us relax and have fun (especially at the Gathering).

 

[Kevin]

We (the wife and I) haven't taken a true vacation, where we drive or fly to someplace that we've wanted to go to and plan our day each morning in a pretty long time. Now we take mini vacations throughout the year (OGCA show in July, The Gathering in October, Tulsa show in November, Huntsville show in January). We add a few days at each one and go to places when we're there to see sights that we like or haven't seen before but heard about. That gets us out of the house and our routine and lets us relax and have fun (especially at the Gathering).

Mini vacations are the way to go. It's cheaper, and you can get away more often. Our family vacations are usually just a few days at one end of a business trip for my wife. She doesn't cheat on her expense report or anything. But we do get to stay in fancy hotels.

 

[peachhead]

We were going to plan a couple of weekends away but I think we've decided just to go on a cruise instead.
We used to go to the beach for a week but dang. Prices there now are stupid and that doesn't include anything but lodging.

 

[turd]

Being retired, I'm always on vacation. We love our house and our location (OK, not so much in winter), so really only go to the Black Hills once in a while, or Denver (where we used to live), for a few days. Wifey has back issues, so walking any distance doesn't really work. My shooting range is close, so we're pretty happy at home.

 

[Jeepnik]

Before I retired my wife had already done so. I planned work trips to places like Sacramento or San Francisco toward the end of the week. My wife would come along and we'd spend the weekend there.

 

[WAYNO]

Thru many decades I've been so blessed to be able to take hunting and/or fishing vacations at will. And although it's not required or expected, I continue to reward my wife for always being a great wife, regardless if she tags along or stays home.

 

[bigbillyboy]

Thru many decades I've been so blessed to be able to take hunting and/or fishing vacations at will. And although it's not required or expected, I continue to reward my wife for always being a great wife, regardless if she tags along or stays home.

Good plan , keep Mom happy

 

[wproct]

My wife and I are both 80+ years old and about our only vacation is an annual get together with her siblings for about 3 days. Back when we were younger and the kids were like 9-13 years of age we would go to Siesta Key, Florida every other year. We would get an annual Christmas bonus, which was money we had withheld and the company would match a portion of it. We would drive there and stay in condo's right off the beach for about 13 days and the Christmas bonus paid for it. I'm gonna say the trip cost us maybe $3000. We had other neighbors and friends that went also. The first year we went to Disney World and Epcot Center, but on the trips after that the kids just preferred to stay on the beach and just go out to eat and do some shopping for souvenirs etc. This went on for about 4 trips. God only knows what that would cost to do today.

 

[GasGuzzler]

My wife and I last took a vacation on our honeymoon. That was May 1997. She likes to be home and so do I. I get 15 paid days off per year and I usually take them one or two at a time and they usually involve making time for business that can only be done on weekdays and some golf.