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How has the economy impacted your summer vacation plans?
By Gary | July 17, 2008
For those of you who have the luxury of taking a summer vacation, how has the economy impacted your plans? Or has it?
Have you gotten the brochures out yet to plan some Caribbean villa rentals? Or has the high cost of gasoline, airline tickets, etc., forced you to look closer to home for a cheaper motel rental and an amusement park?
Seriously, I saw a newscast on one of our local TV stations a few weeks back where a woman who comes to our area from out-of-state each summer insists that gas prices could never get high enough to stop her from bringing her family to a nearby lake. Poor woman. I've been to that lake frequently, and I wouldn't drive across town to go there, let alone come something over 500 miles for the privilege! Perhaps that's just me.
And perhaps that's what summer vacation plans are all about: Just you and/or your family deciding to spend whatever it takes to do what you really want to do. That's what America is all about, isn't it? The idea of choices we are allowed to make.
May your economic situation be such that you can make the choices you want to make!
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