Are you people not Americans? Do you have any idea how big car travel is here and how it's been happening way, way, before the 70's and 80's?
My parents drove out to Yellowstone with my grandparents a very long time ago.
My grandfather was a college lecturer and would plan massive road trips each summer in the 60s to all the national parks. These days I doubt a college lecturer could take summer off
> I think people are just not very aware of the past including their grandfathers generation these days.
It feels surreal to have to even state this, but "being American" does not require that one's grandparents grew up in America. Being a first or second generation immigrant does not make one less "American"
So you’re right the wording was bad, i wasn’t the one that said “not Americans” but I think that person was confused why so many are making flat out incorrect comments like they don’t know anything about America.
My comments was trying to say, “no even multigenerational Americans often don’t know what their grandparents generation was like.”
In this context of comparing American vacations across time periods, the group you’re talking about, Recent immigrants, I would hope aren’t commenting because very few would have researched the topic of American vacations from 1920 to 1980.
In terms of having a substantial system of highways in place out that transformed traveling lifestyles for an age group of children, the general "growing up in the 80s" still seems about right.