Topic of the Day: does going away to college count? If it does, then three school years (but home for summers) at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Otherwise, I went on a seven-day vacation to NYC in 1995 with a local theater group and a nine-day vacation with my sister and niece to London in December 2001. In 1994 or so, my sister, my niece, a friend of my niece's and I all drove down to California to visit our aunt, the nun. We were there for a couple of days short of two weeks, I think. We went to Disneyland but not Knott's Berry Farm. California Adventures didn't exist, yet.