When I was in elementary school, we would go on camping trips during the summer. My favorite memory from the trips is getting a roaring campfire going in the evenings! We would catch crabs during the day and eat them for dinner.

We also took a big trip to Japan to visit my relatives the summer between 3rd and 4th grade. I have a million memories from that trip, so I'd love to take the kids overseas in a few years.

Once we hit 6th grade or so, we got really busy and weren't able to go on trips anymore. At the time I preferred that, because family trips were really stressful with all the kids squeezed into a station wagon. Looking back though, my memories are all of where we went - not how we got there.

Did you travel a lot with your family growing up?