A Reader Poll :: Pre-PA School Trip?

I tend to be someone who will save and save and save and forget to live. Sometimes responsible to a fault.

I've set up our finances to try to avoid this pitfall, creating a special savings account for travel that is funded only from my freelance design work (extra work = extra play). All of our travels have been paid for from this account and we only travel when we have enough to go. These trips are the highlight of our lives. We love to travel together and find we most connect when we're exploring a new place together.

Here comes the basis for this post and poll. We are currently saving as much as we can to pay for Mike's PA school. We will still likely have to take out some loans to get him all the way through but we're trying to keep that number as low as possible so we can pay them off once he graduates as quickly as we can.

Once he starts school in May, he will go for three years straight through with little more then a few days off in between terms. This means we likely won't be able to do any real traveling until May 2015.

When Mike found out he'd been accepted, I realized this time frame and felt like we should take a really great trip with however much I could earn freelancing between now and next May. One last big adventure before three years of hard work and meager living. Then the responsible me kicked in saying "Are you crazy? You need to save up all that money and use it to pay for school! What were you thinking?"
I'm torn and could use some help, please vote in the poll to the right · · · · · · · · >

If you voted for either of the first two options, feel free to leave suggestions of where to go in the comments below. Thank you for your insight!