<p>My freshman year I went and visited a friend (in Sarasota, FL) who had dropped out after first semester - she lived in Florida and my parents were overseas. (She eventually returned and later married my brother.) The next two years my parents were back in the country and I visited them. I think my senior year I visited my boyfriend’s family (My parents were overseas again).</p>
<p>1976 - Breckenridge Colorado for my first snow ski
1977 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida we thought those bathing suits were tiny, tiny…they weighed 5 times more than the ones there now.
1978 - Fort Lauderdale and then to the Bahamas…it was actually cheaper for the eight of us to pay the $50 plane jump to the Bahamas and stay in one of our friends parents condo.
1979 - drove the entire coast line of Florida (st Augustine to Miami to Naples to St Petersburg to Pensacola with my girl friend who several years later became my wife. we stopped in on Disney World for two days as well. we’ve been married 28 years</p>
<p>Miami, Fla with 4 of my college friends. We took Amtrak from NY down because it was cheaper than flying(155.00 roundtrip). Train full of college kids, fun ride down, except everyone was getting off Orlando area. We were the only ones on the train going to Miami.
Another year, Bermuda, another great trip.</p>
<p>That was it.</p>
<p>I went to college about 1000 miles from my home, so two years I mooched off friends and relatives who lived closer to my college and two years I participated in short internships arranged by the college. Both options were cheap (free room & board) and easy to get to by bus or train. It never even occurred to me to go to a beach!</p>
<p>Road trip to FLA with female friends three years in a row. I’m not sure we ever had a plan when we took off. Hit Ft. Lauderdale, Daytona, Key West, St. Augustine, Ft. Myers on various trips. Spent one day at Magic Kingdom at WDW. My memory is Epcot was just being built?? Would either share a cheap hotel room or sleep in the car (or under some trees in a parking lot). Did not use much (any?) sunblock. Ahhhhhh. . . the good old days.</p>
<p>Freshman year, I didn’t quite make it to the steamy beaches of FLA, but did make it to the balmy (at least to me, an upper midwestern girl) weather of Georgia. It was my first road trip with a car full of GFs.</p>
<p>Soph year was backpacking on the AT. Like the previous poster, we had snow. It was my first and last snow camping experience…</p>
<p>Jr or Sr year (now at a CA university), I went backpacking to some hot springs at Big Sur.</p>
<p>Fun times!</p>
<p>Freshman year - working
Junior year - working
Senior Year - no money, not working.</p>
<p>Sophomore year - Ft Lauderdale. I clearly remember the “Elbow Room” which was featured in the movie “Where the Boys Are”.</p>
<p>I spent spring break at WDW from 1972-1977. Working, that is. I was always working. Worked Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, Spring break and summers. Walt Disney World was a great “casual temporary” employer (their description of part-time seasonal workers.) I worked there 2 years of high school and 4 of college. Started out in merchandising (retail sales) at the Main Street Emporium. Moved to where the “money” was waitressing at the Liberty Tree Tavern. Back then WDW was the Magic Kingdom. The other parks came later.</p>
<p>I also worked all the Grad Nights. THIS IS THE LAST YEAR FOR GRAD NIGHTS for those of you who went.</p>
<p>Now I did get to Daytona on a few of my days off over those years…</p>
<p>I was always at home for spring break, through undergrad and 5 years of grad school. S1 was, too. S2 came home freshman year and has stayed at school for years 2 & 3. H didn’t have a spring break.</p>