RE: How should I do it? What does it take?
Its all about your job, even if you don't get alot of vacation some jobs allow you to be flexible. As an environmental consultant we can be buried in work all putting in 60hr weeks one month, and have people sent home the next. We bank time worked over 40hrs so some of us can take a few weeks off with pay (hrs that we've already worked) every year, problem is we can only take the time when we're slow.
When I started my job I got 2 weeks vacation, at 5yrs it went to 3 weeks, I just recieved a watch for 10yrs service and my vacation went to 4 weeks.
4 weeks =
1 week turkey
1 week deer (archery)
1 week deer (gun)
1 week for a trip (moose or bear or caribou)
Add a week of banked time (fridays off for long weekends) and I can get'r done. Of course this will change if I get married and have kids, but right now vacation time is hunting time.