Excellent thread boys. I'd go with calling the typical trip from the metropolis out to the coast when leaving on a Friday after work to return Sunday evening a mission. Depending on the season, the coast HQ is either a planter's motel or campground.

An expedition would be more like the 17 hour trips North to stay in tarpaper shacks, fish for at least five days and spend a lot of that time exploring new water.

Now "Vacation" is a whole other ballgame. I like Yall's definition except there's places in Mexico with fishing as good as Costa Rica only cheaper on the pocketbook all around. Still trying to figgure out a way to make a "business" trip out of that journey. Gotta love those expenses and deductions...