How often do you usually go away on vacation?

We have a small condo at the beach so we do at least once a month weekend there during the school year and almost every weekend in the summer, with an added full week or two thrown in.

It is too hard to be here for Christmas so the past 2 years we went to Puerto Rico and Paris.

My best friend turns 50 this year and we are going to Punta Cana together in August (7 of us) so our Christmas trip may be low key and maybe to Vegas/Grand Canyon.

We almost exclusively RV now for our vacations, and that means two week-to-10-day trips per year with a few long weekends thrown in from spring to fall.

Depends. Some years we go 2-3 times; some years we go only once.

Lately DH and I have started taking long weekends away without the kids (MIL comes to stay with them). That's the best vacation, I think. I love my kids but they are not the best travelers.

We always do a week somewhere each summer, unless we’re saving up for something else big. Other than that, we do a weekend away now and then.

This year’s vacation is a week in August at a place in Missouri called Big Cedar Lodge.

We are on the go on weekends a lot, and I do count weekend trips as vacation. We go to our lake house almost every weekend in the summer, and generally once a month in the winter. It’s convenient that we can take our dogs with us!

During college football season, we generally go two away games, which turn into long weekends away. Our son goes to law school in another state and we go two or three weekends a year to see him.

I usually go on one or two girls’ weekend trips a year and my husband goes on a couple of trips with his friends as well.

We try and go on a one week vacation once a year.

I didn’t realize how often we are gone on the weekends until I wrote this reply!

2-3 times for an actual vacation. 1 time back home to the US to visit family/doctors appts, etc

We usually go to SoCal at least once a year, somewhere else (or SoCal again) for a second vacation, and then a long weekend or 2 or 3, within driving distance, i.e. Banff.

Other - typically three to five times a year. We do at least one international trip with the boys (typically to dive), at least one international trip with just DH (either to dive or Europe), and typically a weekend trip or two domestically. The boys also travel to visit either my family, or DH's.

I swear I work for the sole purpose of being able to afford to travel.

Sure! It’s in Franklin, usually right around Memorial Day. And, since both DH’s parents and his sister’s family live in NC (Greensboro), we are planning on retiring somewhere near Asheville, though not any time soon.

Once a year we take a week vacation.  Until about five years ago it was more like a 3-4 day vacation as that was all we could handle budget wise, sometimes not even that.

Now we take a week plus a day or two travel time each summer.  We may also take a couple of in state weekend trips.  

I love to travel.  I wish we had a larger budget for it AND that I didn't have a fear of flying.  I can do it, but I really really do not like it and have only flown a few times in my life, only once as an adult.

ETA: This year we may take a second vacation.  We are still deciding.  

We usually do one week at an all-inclusive and a couple of days in Vegas for sure. Other ones might pop up here and there. Now that we are both retired and works doesn't dictate when we can go on vacation, it is much easier (and cheaper).

I find traveling to be exhausting though usually enjoyable. I don’t expect to travel every year but I am going to make it my mission to take the time off work that I earn, just for the mental break.

However, when I do travel I do not hesitate to take ‘down time’ while there. I do not schedule every day because I’m fine taking some time reading or jst wandering. I also do not schedule every minute of the days I do loosely schedule. Sometimes you jst want to relax. And that’s just fine. I’m never going to see everything another place has to offer so I decided not to even try. To just go and be present and soak things in.

Nothing explained to me how much I recharge during down time as having to work required overtime weekends last summer. Geez that was exhausting.

So no I don’t travel every year but I’m also going to use my days before I loose them every year.

So as long as your finding time to be yourself and recharge no I don’t think you are weird.

We're retired so we go whenever the spirit moves us. So far this year we've been on 2 cruises (with one more booked for Oct.), gone to TN for our son's graduation (PhD, finally!) and I did a girls trip (with 49 other women, what a blast). We're going back to TN in a couple of weeks for a concert and visit friends. We have done a couple of short trips around the state (FL), just a night or 2 away, so does that count as a 'vacation'? 
I'm always ready to pack.

"Other". We tend to go away on a trip of more than just a day or two every other year. There are exceptions, of course. A few times we took those trips on back to back years, and sometimes, two years have gone by between trips.

On the no-trip years, we do day trips and perhaps a weekend trip here or there.