The keystone of whether something is an actual vacation or not, in my mind, is spending substantial amounts of time with folks I don't normally. Usually it's due to geographic concerns; my social networks have been scattered cross-country starting from a very young age, and as good as the internet is for day-to-day contact, there's something to be said for just Hanging Out Together for a week(end).
For most of college, I made twice-annual trips from Denver to Phoenix to visit a particularly close friend there; we never did anything astoundingly exciting (barring the one trip right after I'd graduated, wherein we went to Phoenix Comicon. But that was an atypical thing.) And that was okay. We hung out for a week, caught up on life, stayed up until 2am talking about whatever.
Not to say I'm averse to staying home and unwinding from work (I do that on a fairly regular basis), but that's not tagged as a 'vacation' in my mind.
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For most of college, I made twice-annual trips from Denver to Phoenix to visit a particularly close friend there; we never did anything astoundingly exciting (barring the one trip right after I'd graduated, wherein we went to Phoenix Comicon. But that was an atypical thing.) And that was okay. We hung out for a week, caught up on life, stayed up until 2am talking about whatever.
Not to say I'm averse to staying home and unwinding from work (I do that on a fairly regular basis), but that's not tagged as a 'vacation' in my mind.