Do you all take advantage of alternate weekend travel? If so, how often?

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Every six weeks in 2018/2019 to go see my grandchildren while my son was deployed.

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Usually once or twice a month. I moved away from home after college, so I use it to go back and see my family, visit my friends who also moved away, weddings, etc.

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Not really. Too exhausted, have to work the weekend, need to go take care of laundry/errands/Amazon returns/therapy/the dentist, etc

Are you me? 😩

I've been doing it a lot recently, but I generally do it in waves.

1-2x per month

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