Amen to everything said here! Your idea of a vacation sounds exactly like mine. I usually go home to be with my family once a year, maybe twice, and that is vacation to me. It’s exactly as you say, just hanging around together, talking, reading, relaxing, etc. Even when I went to Sweden to visit my sister we spent a lot of the time at home just reading and taking it easy, and it was great. Whenever I hear people say something like, “We are going to Disneyland this year,” I feel sorry for them.

I hadn’t really thought much about the notion of vacation as another type of identity formation and status symbol, but that rings true to me as well.

Peace,
Gordy