It was over $4000 for the ticket just to get here, and another $3500 or so for the return ticket. Business class.
So bringing the family is out of the question. Plus, working 12 hours a day plus 1.5 hours travel, give or take, doesn’t leave a lot of time for family.
My daughter was happy with Lake Erie this summer. Maybe we’ll get to the Atlantic shore some year. But flying to South America? Never in a million years.
my dad worked in construction when i was growing up. we went to Lake Erie once or twice, and we went to NJ shore once, i think, my entire childhood. I went to So America with the Latin American studies program at Pitt, i think it was ridiculously cheap too, bc it was subsidized by Pitt’s LA studies program. Your munchkin will go places if and when she’s interested in doing so. it’s great you have the computer to communicate and send pix back and forth while you are away.
You’ll have to save the trip for the after winning the lottery schedule then. We have a few places on that list. Numero uno is Belize.