Did you travel a lot as a kid?

[MrX]

My childhood experience was almost identical to yours, IAG, minus ANY hotel stays, and add a couple older sisters.

Long summer road trips with a camper, my dad's ever-present road-rage, and the smell of campfires and mildew embedded into denim for weeks.

 

[Blitty]

Boner and I are big on researching our purchases.

You're lucky you got to stay in hotels my family would always camp out on our road trips.

 

[Cougar Bait]

We traveled a lot, probably every other summer from age 5 to 18 but mostly it was a cabin or hotel since none of us were into roughing it except for my little brother. They were good vacations, lots of great memories, mostly out east (north and south) and Michigan UP, also went to Disney World one year and the Smoky Mountains another year. Never out west though which is where I have spent that majority of my adult life travelling.

Would like to see more out there in the middle of nowhere, Montana and Wyoming. Some interest in going to Spain and Italy, possibly Greece, but that will likely be much later.

 

[Boner_18]

Cheap is not spending. Thrifty is making sure the spending you do is maximizing your dollars. I'd say I'm 82% thrifty and 18% cheap. Blitty is probably even more thrifty, maybe 94%?

 

[reno cool]

we used to drive Reliant into the mountains

My father hated this car. Would also be the 1st car I'd drive. Looks remarkably stylish to me now

 

[IAG]

We had this giant blue Buick something or other. I can still remember the smell of that car. I used to sleep up right next to the rear window .there must have been a ledge or something there.

 

[MrX]

Fine looking vehicle, reno.

This was my first camping vehicle. After a few years, we switched to a pop-up trailer.

 

[reno cool]

see, when it's posted like that the picture looks cut off on the left side.