Gas prices are destroying me. No one can afford to go on vacation. We have to take less hours. What is it going to take.

More than 6 of Ten Americans say it's important they run away from home this year, a Gallup Poll finds. And many say they're finding techniques around high gas costs, airfares and hotel rooms to do it.
"Rising gas prices won't at all affect my vacation," says Richard Miller of Plano, Texas, who's flying to San Francisco in July with a ticket he scooped up in a fare sale. "I'm going."
The poll implies that Northern Americans are prepared to pay more to get away this summer : 71% of those who have a tendency to travel say they are expecting to spend more on transport this year, and 44% plan on paying out more for food, lodging and entertainment.
Pay more they can. Almost every facet of travel in the States is more expensive than it did last year, with the summer travel season starting in under two weeks, on Memorial Day weekend