Today is ANZAC day and right at this moment, my son and his family are somewhere in the sky, on their way to Cairns for a couple of weeks. Their plane took off at 6am.
I was just thinking about them, they have 2 boys (aged 5 and 2) and this is the older one's 7th holiday to Qld, he is a seasoned traveller. They fly every time. His first flight was in about March 2021, between lockdowns.
This is in such stark contrast to my own childhood. My question for other boardies, what was it like for you growing up?
For me, we rarely went away on holidays.
It was not until the end of Grade 6, in the Christmas holidays, that we drove up to the border at Albury and I went over the border. That trip was 3 days. We visited the Albury war cemetery and saw my grandfather's grave for the first time. He died in 1943 and that was my mother's first time seeing it too, so travelling wasn't something my parents had done a lot of either.
Then when I was in my teens, we drove up to the Gold Coast, Qld for a few weeks (loved it, stayed right on the beach-holiday place probably long gone for a high rise now), another time to Adelaide, Sydney.
Impressive trips to my teenage self. But never on planes.
When my own kids were growing up, we did the Gold coast, Adelaide, Sydney and Alice Springs/Uluru, Tassie sometimes on planes but also on the Ghan (which in their opinion was going povo!) but no overseas trips.
My grandchildren though (6 of them, 11 and under) have had numerous plane trips and the older 4 have all been on a couple of cruises overseas. Different world!
