h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Someone at work said recently that he was taking time off. Another person asked him where he was going on vacation. He corrected them, he said he was 'taking time off to visit relatives' which, most certainly, by his standards, was NOT a vacation.

By that definition, I have never had a vacation. From the point where I became an adult, to the present time (15 or 16 years later), I have lived at least a few hundred miles away from my family. So in all that time, my "vacation" time was spent going to see "family".

Speaking of which, we just got back from such a trip. At this point, I live around 1200 miles from family... a long, long day's drive by any standard. I get 3 weeks per year of "vacation" time from my employer, and tend to use it all in one shot... to see family, of course. That's not to say that we don't detour and go smell the roses along the way... because we must do that, as well.

It was a good "vacation" .... or not....