at least one 2+ week trip abroad and 8-10 long weekend trips every year.

Generally, two trips abroad per year, although this year we chose to do this only once (and spruce up the house with the leftover $$$).

Aside from this, I visit my family in the NE twice a year and my family in the SE 3-4 four times a year.

I also try to get away to do some genealogy research at least twice a year, usually only domestic, but in the past I've visited England many times for this purpose. (I don't really need an excuse to go to England - I love it there!).

Next year, we'll have at least two weeks in Ireland and are considering venturing to South America.

We generally take 1 big trip (about 1 weeks long) and as many weekend trips as we can - generally 3-4 these days.

We we have finished fixing up our house, I want to take a summer and do a bunch of little trips all summer long.

This year we did 3 one week trips and one two week trip. Next year, one two week trip, one one week trip and a couple of 3 to 4 day mini vacations. One of those will be to the Grand Canyon! Never been.

What do you all do that you have this much vacation time?

My dh and I are both attorneys, and we have no restriction on vacations. Of course, the rub is we still need to make our hourly requirement. So no 2 week trips for us!

Please tell me what jobs allow you to have this much vacation time (or if you live in Europe), so I can see about a career change! lol

I would love to take more time off for travel but being that I'm self-employed, I don't get paid if I don't work. I'm only able to take off a few days at a time and I try to combine weekends or holidays with these "extra" days. I do however try to take at least one longer week trip per year. This year I went to Hawaii (Oahu and BI) in February.

mah1980,

I teach and my partner is retired.

mah1980
I am retired secretary, I now decorate cakes and have 2 at-home MLM businesses. DH is 30+ year rural mail carrier, gets 4 wks VL yr & can carry over from yr to yr. He also sells crop insurance on the side. Kids all grown & gone, so income finally outweighs the expenses, so we do what we love - travel. We have been truly BLESSED!! God is good!

We both get 4 weeks of vacation a year, and we usually take 3-4 long-weekend pleasure trips, plus 2-3 trips to visit friends or relatives. Some years we get to take a weeklong-or-more trip, but not too often.

About a week of vacation days are spent just bumming around the local area, often showing visiting friends around--Seattle, so there's plenty to see and do.

There's never enough vacation to travel to all the places we want to see, but we can't complain--we're lucky to be able to get away as much as we do, and the local area has lots of interesting places to visit. Most years we get to at least one or two new cities in the U.S.

Mah, we're both attorneys, too, but DH works for a bank, and gets a lot of use-it-or-lose-it "personal time" (combined vacation, sick days and personal time off). I'm with a firm, but my billable requirement has always been 2/3 of full-time. Now that my kids are older (one still lives at home, but she's at community college), I tend to work full days when I'm working, and take more vacation days when possible (I used to work 3-1/2 days and take 1-1/2 days off when they were little, then I switched to working 5 days but going home at 2:30 every day, now I'm on this new "schedule"). Fortunately, I have a lot of flexibility!

Things will probably change next year with a 2nd child so no big trips planned after Xmas.

This year we got 10 days Quebec/Montreal.
3 day Gatlinburg/Bryson City
3 day Charleston
4 day weekend Wyoming
4 day weekend Charlottesville
10 days Speyer area/Prague (includes DH work trip and we are tagging along). I try to go on his work trips when possible and explore. Will probably go to TX at the New Year's (work related but toddler and I get to go out and have fun while he works!)
We have at least 2 more football games to attend in Va and will probably take off Fridays to lessen the driving. We try to check out new towns if we have time in the Cville area.

We don't like to stay put for very long and I want my children to see as much as possible as well! I hope I can instill the love of travel in them at a young age. My 16 month old has already seen/done more than most people I know here in this small town we live in!