Yes, I know, Thanksgiving and Christmas are when the whole family gathers at Grandma’s, or some similar Norman Rockwell scenario. But not everybody plays by that script. Moving your holiday festivities, whatever they might be, to some vacation destination is becoming increasingly popular. And if you’re thinking about a destination holiday this year, and you haven’t already locked it in, get busy. You can figure something out for just about any scenario.
I’ve personally experienced a wide spectrum of destination holidays. Soon after my wife and I married, she became the de facto matriarch of her side of the family, and my side wasn’t around. That meant full-family Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house, wherever we might live at the time. After we retired to Southern Oregon, we did a few destination Christmases and Thanksgivings. Typically, we rented a house on the Oregon Coast, prepared most of the big dinner before we went over, and had the family join us.
