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[winterbadger]

My feet are getting itchy, so I'm thinking about vacations. Thus, ineluctably, a poll:



[Poll #1565588]

Comments

[kmusser]

I usually try to do one "big" vacation a year (at least one week long and usually somewhere far away, this year it's Hawaii). In addition there will be one "family" vacation - usually a week during the holidays visiting relatives. Then there will be several long weekend vacations throughout the year, usually for specific events that are within a days drive (gaming cons, ren faires, music festivals, religious retreats/festivals) though occasionally for more holiday-ish vacations as well.

[winterbadger]

Yeah, I was trying to discriminate, as your description does, between the archetypal "Thanksgiving/Christmas/Other Appropriate Holiday when the family gathers" and the equally archetypal "taking off for the beach/mountains/Florida/Caribbean/Europe" vacation.

redactrice and I used to do a lot of long-weekend trips with our reenacting unit. I think that's where I got out of the habit of taking a long summer (or other) vacation, as between the weekend trips and the obligatory family visit to her parents or mine, that burned up all my leave (hers, being of the gold-edged Congressional variety, usually allowed her extra time to, for instance, visit her parents if our annual holiday pilgrimage was being spent with mine that year).

[kmusser]

Also perhaps relevant to this entry: I have a list.

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

I just posted a "where should I go" thread on Facebook. One theme: don't plan on Europe for the rest of the year unless you are okay with an Icelandic volcano messing up your plans. So maybe an island somewhere.

[winterbadger]

How about this island? :-)

[ban-leodhasach.livejournal.com]

sorry about picking pretty much all options in 'what guides your travel planning' but I tend to cover most things on every vacation Lewis, (family historical, relaxing) Belfast (Cultural!!) Switzerland (Athletic) :-)

[winterbadger]

Yeah, I should have made those radio buttons and asked people to pick the thing they are most likely to choose, instead of making them multiple choice.

What I do see that's interesting is that

• a majority of people take a week at a time
  
• most people have more than one vacation a year, and
  
• people are pretty evenly split between being OK with their vacation time and wanting more.
  
  And that a large portion of those feeling they don't get enough vacation are those who get the most (multiple weeks). That just speaks to me of the eternal human dilemma--there's no such thing as enough of a good thing!

[cmlc.livejournal.com]

I'm OK with my holiday time I suppose, but I ticked "I don't get enough" because really I want to be on holiday all the time :-)

Filled in a week late because I was on holiday... (Orkney)

[winterbadger]

MMmm, Orkney--nice!