Lake Sunapee...

[kinnerc]

The Messicks have had a proper, yearly refuge for as long as the Messick and Cleary families have been intertwined. At Lake Sunapee, NH, most of the Messick girls have been here, yearly, from birth. The tradition is in its now third generation as the girls get married, have kids, and bring their families here, always the 1st week of August. The

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[fabunobo]

It sounds charming. Mike and I are going to our annual family place next week.

[mhaithaca]

I guess my family's rough equivalent was planning family vacations around my dad's annual trips to the Frankfurt Book Fair. We never actually went to Germany, but went somewhere else in Europe either before or after his week in Frankfurt. Or even better, our brief family vacations either before or after the business seminars my mom's old company had on Garden Island in the middle of Lake Champlain. That at least reliably involved swimming, and cabins.

Renting a lake house, as Ian and Melissa have been doing each summer for several years, seems like a good way to do a vacation. Rentals on the Outer Banks or the Jersey Shore are probably comparable. Maybe I should get back in that habit.