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I'm stuck in a time warp when it comes to the beginning of the school year. When I was growing up in the cornbelt back in the 1930s and '40s, school let out near the end of May and picked up again the day after Labor Day. If you think that was to give us hoodlums a longer summer vacation you're wrong. It was done so that kids would be available to help on the farm during the relatively short growing season in that region. These days it seems like our grandkids don't get much of a summer break. They're in class until the middle of June and head back again in August, well before Labor Day. The reason this is important to us is that we have made it a point to take the kids on summer trips in our motorhome. Today's short vacations haven't given us much window for long jaunts, such as across the continent. We have done this in the past but only through the tightest of scheduling. The short-vacation dilemma is worse than ever now because we have only two grandchildren still in...
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