Email: Going on vacation [KF]

I've never really considered visiting family (as welcome or necessary as it may be) as a "vacation," which somehow in my mind carries the connotation that you get to do relaxing (or active) things of your own choice and timing. Isn't it [also] weird to feel the dichotomy between a welcome chance to "get away from it all" versus the welcome feeling (by the end of it all) of getting back home?

It seems like women usually are expected to do all the travel planning (unless for some reason the man likes to do it). It's in that domestic sphere for which men are still learning to share responsibility.