My wife and I, both Gen-X, still vacation today in the same way: we planned a trip to Europe, we planned a schedule of places we’ll stay (and booked the appropriate hotels), we’ve rented a car–and we scheduled a tour and we may schedule fine dining at a restaurant.
And the rest is just us making it up as we go.
Generation X Did Summer Vacation Right – WSJ:
Generation X, lurking between the more demographically significant boomer and Generation Z cohorts, isn’t consulted much. But here it’s a loss, since doing more with less has always been our stock-in-trade.
This is how I remember every summer day during my coming-of-age years: underplanned and overenjoyed.