[DiffEq]

While I understand the purpose, and the intrigue of the things discussed in this article, the title itself is inaccurate. My experience growing up in MT is that we did none of these things, nor did my peers. Most of the things we did were free and still are....like going for a walk, a hike, a bike ride, plinking, etc as a family.

[bombcar]

I think they're talking about "yearly activities" - at least in the southwest it was relatively common for families to take a "vacation" each summer which was usually centered around something like going to Disneyland, or traveling somewhere, etc.

Depending on how wealthy you were, there was a wide variation on what and how - poorer kids in my class would go to Magic mountain for a day (drive up early, drive home), richer kids would go to Disneyland for a few days and stay in the hotel. The nice thing was that you could have friends from class who were vastly different "wealth" go to the same park (the poorer kids would go for the day, but meet up with their friends who were staying at the hotel).

From what I remember we never really cared one way or the other, we just had fun.