ability to take time away from work without pay

Tell me you’re a US American without telling me that you’re a US American

No.

I can’t even afford a bus ticket and I haven’t been on a plane since before 9/11/2001.

The last travel I did was three years ago when we took my elderly dog to the beach one last time, and that was only about an hour and a half drive. It was a purposefully special occasion to get him to the beach one last time. Honestly, I’d probably trade never traveling again just to have him back. Miss you, Jack.

Yes.

I haven’t flown in four years. Even longer since I flew for a vacation.

Me and the Mrs work remote. We have 25 days of PTO each, but often extend our vacations as workations. We have two dogs to bring along, hence we avoid flying.

We had a sailboat that we’d spend four months of the year on. Hitting four different countries in one season.

We now have a toddler that takes too much time and focus for sailing, so we’ve traded the sailboat for a caravan/travel trailer. We’ve only had it one season, but did about 4000km. Spent nights in 9 different towns.

They say vacationing with kids is just parenting without the home field advantage. Towing your vacation home evens the advantage out a bit, at least.

Yes.

Is it in any way financially responsible?

Absolutely not.

I have 6 weeks off work with pay. 5 weeks is the minimum here though.

I just don’t have the desire to travel so I just spend time at home doing stuff that I feel needs doing, and chill

I’m retired, so yeah, time off work isn’t an issue. We get away pretty regularly, domestically and internationally. I guess about two months a year, in aggregate, on average?

Yes but by far not as much as I would wish we could. We live i n South Korea so anywhere we want to go we have to do it by airplane and with two kids it’s getting expensive. We have the financial means but especially my wife can’t ever take more than a week off, which is really bad, because visiting my family in Europe isn’t really worth is fo a week only.

So we end up in Japan a lot and in China because it’s only like 2.5h flight.

Sure. Living in Germany I fly at least once a year to a not so far destination for vacation. Mostly flights with a duration around the 2 hour mark within Europe that cost around 400 Euros (flight home being included)

Since I’m in Bavaria I can hop into my car and be in Austria or northern Italy in a few hours. I could take the bus to Prague or a train to Paris and have done all that in the past. (Although not quite as often as I want to)

Trips to other cities within Germany by train are even easier and cheaper thanks to the Germany Train ticket. Most expensive is often the accommodation.

However I wasn’t outside of Europe for quite some time and I‘d have to save up for quite some time if would want to go to another continent.

I get paid vacation.
Why should I go without?

• A german citizen.

I do not have the ability to take time from work without pay. However, I work for a non-profit University health system, and I get 7 set holidays, 20 vacation days, and 7 personal days. So, 34 paid days off work per year.

Now that my kids are grown, I find myself being forced to take time off because I’m hitting the limit (use it or lose it).

However, I don’t generally like to travel all that much.

Yes. We are DINKs in the UK with decent pay and good holiday entitlement (6 weeks each). Will take one long foreign holiday each year and then as many domestic trips as we can with the dog

Yes.

But that’s because I work for the airlines.

I get 25 vacation days each year, but I don’t have money to really travel. Also I grew up on a farm. My parents never could be away from the animals too long, so I didn’t grow up with the expectation of yearly vacations to the sun or anything like that. Because of that, it’s not a priority for me now. But if I had spare money, I would like to see more of the world.

Before I had kids, I’ve been abroad a few times, but only once for a real vacation. I’ve studied abroad for half a year. I have worked as an international driver, so I’ve seen most of the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switserland and France. I’ve been in a plane 3 times in my life, one of which was behind the steering wheel (awesome experience).

I expect (hope) to be financially able to travel again in the next 5 years or so.

All but the desire to do so.

Yes, but my spouse and I are DINKs, and we specifically chose that, one of the big reasons was for travel. No judgement to those with families, but it’s pretty clear that if you have kids then your disposable income is completely going to them. There’s a ton of other reasons we chose not to have kids too, but in the context of this post, well we wanted and continue to want to travel.