I'm on the other end of the spectrum. We may look fairly wealthy with a house in a nice neighborhood and a Ford Mustang in the driveway, but we've been struggling financially for the longest time.
This means out of all the trips we've planned to go on, we've only gone to about 10% of them. The other 90% were usually cancelled, or changed to a cheaper one night trip one or two states away.
I live in New York, and the city is not too far away. If you're counting places outside Manhattan, I'm just two county borders from the city. Any trip there isn't a vacation at all, and it holds true for anyone who lives near a big landmark, what seems like an awesome vacation for some seems like no big deal to the people who live in or near it. So:
We go up to Connecticut usually once or twice a year (but since my maternal grandmother's death, it seems like we go more frequently).
New Jersey is also a state we sometimes visit for vacations, as well as Pennsylvania.
When I was quite young, around the age of 4 or 5, We went upstate to Lake George, a place not too far from Canada, and has lots of mountains.
When an uncle on my mother's side had a wedding, we had gone up to Boston for a few days. It was nice, and I think going there again would be nice. (For now, if I plan on getting married, that's kind of the only place in the country I can go to.)
As far as family trips go, those places are pretty much it. We once tried planning a cruise to Bermuda, but obviously lacked funds. My dad's also promised us a trip to Disney World since we've been very young, and many years later, that promise has still not yet been fulfilled, and now he's got children aged 22, 18 going on 19, and 17.
I HAVE been on other trips, though.
In 5th grade, I had gone to New Jersey to the Liberty Science Center for a day.
In 6th grade, the class I was in took a trip to Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. for 3 days. It was a fun trip, but the end of it was already well documented here.
In 9th and 12th grade, I had also gone to Virginia with the band I was in, around the Williamsburg/Virginia Beach area. Fun times were had.
But, of course, like family trips, bad luck likes to kick me in the face.
In 8th grade, a planned band trip to St. Louis, Missouri was cancelled thanks to President wanting to start a war on Iraq, scaring people into cancelling trips to big cities.
In 10th grade, a planned band trip to Cleveland, Ohio was cancelled because only about 20-30% of the band I was in actually wanted to go.
In 11th grade, a band trip to the same place was also cancelled for the band I was in, due to powers beyond the school's control.
That same year, a trip I wanted to go on, to France, wasn't cancelled, but it was learned that it'd be quite expensive, even though my parents promised me years earlier that I could go. So I didn't go on it.
Recently, I planned on interning in Disney World, in Florida. I would've liked to sign up last semester, but due to my paternal grandfather's death, I had to take the same week off from college the week they were having sign-ups. I thought, "No big deal, I'll sign up next semester." Because I was denied financial aid though, I had to withdraw from the college this semester, not allowing me to sign up for the internship.
My friend, though, signed up at the time I couldn't, and is currently enjoying himself there. *eyetwitch*
My apologies for turning your thread into a sort of rant, but I feel that some high power NEVER wants me to leave the Northeastern United States.
(hey, the movies might be for kids, but the cruises.. pwnage)
Many of the earlier movies are awesome! Even though they might be targeted to younger audiences, I still enjoy a few of them, even if they aren't done by Pixar. I was watching A Goofy Movie just the other night on the Disney Channel.
