I don’t really remember “vacations” when I was a kid. When I was just a little tad, my folks took us to northern Minnesota on week-long fishing trips a couple of times. I enjoyed those because I loved fishing, because my Grandpa always came along, and I thought I had the best Grandpa ever. But they weren’t expensive and they weren’t fancy, just a week in a cabin borrowed from a friend, and a lot of fish for the freezer. In later years, when summer rolled around, my parents generally looked around at the stretch of Allamakee County, Iowa, woods where we lived and asked, “Why would we go anywhere else?”
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So when I stumbled on this piece on Fox News by columnist Ted Jenkin, it struck a familiar chord.
In today’s fast-paced world, where both parents are often working full-time jobs, guilt can creep in quickly. You miss