My parents were what you might call eccentric. They were not bad parents, but they were often a little bit arbitrary and whimsical with some of the choices that they would make. Nowhere was this more true than in the vacation packages that they would take us on. Both my dad and my mom were absolute fanatics for discount holidays. They loved discount travel of any kind. It seems like it did not matter where the trip took them or for how long, as long as they could get there for cheap, it was fine by them.

When I think back on my childhood, there is not a single discount holiday that stands out. Rather, there are a few high points from the various trips. There is one time where my mom purchased discount tickets to Bangladesh ñ during the monsoon season. I remember vividly on the flight over there, asking my mom if I was going to get to swim. Being a kid, that was my favorite part of discount holidays. When I was standing shin deep in water, wishing I was home, I thought back to that innocent question and wondered if I would ever want to go swimming again.

Of course, not all of the discount holidays were miserable, bizarre failures. Some of them actually turned out quite nicely. There was one time where, all of the sudden, my dad came home with tickets to Alaska that he had apparently gotten at work. Many of the discount holidays were to exotic places, but none of them seemed quite as strange to me as Alaska. I still remember seeing the northern lights and wondering if they were ghosts.

Some of the places we stayed on those discount holidays were memorable, but not always in a good way. We really had more than our fair share of ratty discount hotels. Every once in a while, however, we would have a discount holiday trip where everything would go perfectly. One year, for example, we got to stay at the cutest bed and breakfast hotel that you have ever seen! Not only was the place adorable, but the food was good, the bed was comfortable, and the host and hostess were very nice. It was memories like that that kept me going through some of the less pleasant moments of our discount holidays. Still, they have given me plenty of stories to tell.

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