Do you have any vacations or trips that are necessary for your sanity?

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Twice a year I go, usually to Washington but not always, with this disability rights group called ADAPT. We use direct action as a way to make social change. I call it my two week vacation from being stared at or told I talk funny. Granted, on my vacations you don't go to jail, but I've found that I really can't handle not seeing my friends twice a year. Whatever I have to do to get there I will do. It doesn't matter if I'm going to have no money the next month, if my mom's going to yell at me for how I spent my money, or even if I have to borrow money. It's just that necessary. Does anyone else have a place like that? And if so, what is it?