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Originally Posted by Liquid_o2
Did we have the same parents?
Furthest my parents took us was camping on Vancouver Island or the Okanagan. They threw everything on the mortgage, paid off their house in 10 years or something like that.
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Oh man, that's my childhood too.
We had a truck, second hand camper and dinky 16' boat.
We had 3 camping trips a year:
1) May long weekend: Egmont on the Sunshine coast
2) One Week in July: Up to a lake in the interior, usually Green lake but some other lakes every now & then
3) One Week in August: Fishing in Bamfield on Vancouver Island
Not once in my childhood did we go anywhere that required a plane or hotel.
I didn't mind, I didn't know any better and when we did go camping it used to be with a whole bunch of other Aunts & Uncles with cousins my age (usually a good dozen of us kids running amok in the campsites, parents usually just let us go wild).
Kind of sad that I won't be able to give my kid quite the same experience. I mean I plan to take him camping and fishing, but he won't have the dozen other cousins etc his age to go nuts and explore life with.
Funny thing is that NOW my parents are all like "we need to do a family trip to Mexico or something, bring Colin he'll have a great time" and I say "Yeah, if you want to pay for it!"