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To: Marc Hyman who wrote (57381)	4/4/2006 11:34:01 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

How many can do that today? I have four sisters and my husband has seven sisters, of the 12 women in both our families only one worked when their kids were still in school (dead beat husband whom she eventually divorced), three didn't have children so they worked and the rest had husbands who supported the entire family. I've worked my entire life since I was 15, but I don't have children, so what else would I do? We live on one income and save the other! Neither of us came from wealthy families. Who's going to Europe or the Caribbean every other year? Well, I do. That and a yearly trip to points West, CA or Seattle or both. I wish I could say that Americans didn't travel because everywhere we go has too many Americans for my taste. The only good thing is that most of them in the Caribbean are on cruise ships, which I avoid like the plague.

To: Marc Hyman who wrote (57381)	4/4/2006 11:40:36 AM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

I see more folks traveling now than ever before and not just business travel that seems to grow and grow. Sure a large portion of society is now a slave to their mortgage but a ton of others have more freedom and net worth than ever thought possible a decade ago. Then you have another pool that is the reckless living way beyond their means using their home as an ATM or credit cards to fund trips they can't really afford. All adds up to boom times for travel.