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Posted by on Jul 25, 2021 in Blog, Personal, Travel | 2 comments

What’s the Most Impactful Vacation You Took as a Child?

 

 

“All I can remember now are positive things. It’s funny how the mind works and what we chose to remember.”

Welcome to the latest edition of my Facebook discussion series, “An Unconventional Convention.”

To read more and/or participate hopefully, click on the image below which links directly to the Facebook page.

 

AN UNCONVENTIONAL CONVENTION: #165

Summer usually means it’s vacation time. Past generations loaded into station wagons and drove to national parks or went away for a week or two around this time of year. The post-war era sparked this tradition now largely associated with American culture.

I grew up in that era. Many of the family summer vacations I experienced had a profound influence on my life and shaped what I believe. Those vacations certainly gave me a much broader perception of the rest of the country, the world, and other people. In short, vacations were an extremely important part of my life.

And so, our topic for today is — family vacations, particularly when you were a child.

Question: What’s the most impactful vacation you took as a child (up to age 18) and why was it meaningful?

Looking back on my childhood, even though I was a child of divorce early, I was lucky to have two families that both loved traveling. So, I got the added benefit of usually going on TWO vacations in the summer — one with my mother’s side and one with my father’s side. We did all of Texas, most of the national parks in the West, Indian reservations, Mexico (at least six times), beaches, San Francisco and Las Vegas. I remember the long drives, sometimes across flatlands and endless stretches of highway which must have been grueling for my parents, but were great opportunities to talk, listen, share, and spend time together. Being trapped inside a car for 10 hours a day with the same people can be either madness or magic, and sometimes both.  Everything was new and exciting.

I’ll try to think of the most impactful vacation spot (or memory), because it may take me some time to ponder so many wonderful experiences. I’m sure it wasn’t always all milk and honey on these family vacations, but all I can remember now are positive things. It’s funny how the mind works and what we chose to remember.

Now, it’s your turn. Most impactful family vacation — and why.

This is the ONE-HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIFTH edition of A.U.C. an exclusive Facebook series intended to promote civil discussion and debate. Thank you for reading, and participating!

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2 Comments

  1. For me, it was my first trip to Wales and England, in 1950. My mother was a WW2 war bride from Wales, having been in the British Army and having met my father during the build-up for the Normandy invasion. The trip over was on the Queen Elizabeth, and the return on the Mauretania. That trip was my introduction to the Welsh half of my family, including my grandmother, and to my Welsh heritage. It basically set the tone for my entire life…

  2. I think that traveling with my father, uncle and grandfather to Saskatchewan back when I was like 14 to hunt mule deer. Just really taught me to love nature and everything related to it, shaped how I’ve been spending most of my free time over the last decades for sure.

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