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Let me paint a little picture for you.  You have just slogged through the hot, crowded streets to get to your office, you are sweating profusely, and you have about thirty douchey emails to answer.  The phone rings, it's your mother.  She is calling to inform you that you are being forced to spend a week at a remote location with your parents, your sister and her boyfriend.  And by "forced," I mean she says, "it would be great if you could join us," which we all know really means, "If you don't join us you are in the doghouse for life."  More »
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Summer is the perfect time to take a trip. Sometimes, just knowing that you have booked a plane ticket can get you through a shitty work day. So why have researchers found that people who go on vacation don't feel any better than those who stay home? More »
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"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle" reads the motto helpfully left on the pillow of each penitent doing the Ranch at Live Oak cleanse. At $800 and 1500 calories a day, easy for them to say. More »
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In this installment of Dress Code, we'll take on packing. Even if you're not going away this weekend, chances are at some point in the coming months, you will — herewith, a few tips to avoid bag-bloat and no-skivvies crises. More »
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An article about a holiday "On the Trail of Laura Ingalls Wilder" got us thinking: what book vaycays would we like to see? More »
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I'm baaack. (It was less walkabout, more lazeabout.) Thanks to the staff for steering the ship while I was knee-deep in friends/floods/food. Speaking of: at left, the glorious Aussie "brekky" that made a longhaul flight through my intestines on Saturday...and an excuse to talk about favorite breakfasts. More »
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With the economy taking a toll on people's vacation budgets, camping is experiencing a new popularity. Good news for state parks, whose budgets have been slashed. [CNN] More »
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While any number of hotels will allow dogs, if man's bets friend is your highest priority, that hardly cuts it. Enter The Inn at Lake Joseph, a picturesque Catskills retreat for dog and master. While you stay in one of the inn's cabins, your pooch can run in the woods, swim in the lake's "dog crib," and romp with the other dogs in residence. The inn's owners say that about half their guests bring dogs; there are also non-canine accommodations and activities. [Bloomberg] More »
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Over the weekend, E! aired a nauseating show called 30 Best & Worst Beach Bodies. Talking heads lauded Fergie for being fit, while saying things like "Star Jones should not be in a bikini" and that, instead of a brief Euro swim trunks, Arnold Schwarzenegger should wear a T-shirt and long shorts. Apparently, the beach is not just for enjoying the sea breeze and a refreshing dip in the water: in the U.S., it's for judging the bodies of others. And in Turkey, the beach is a hotbed of controversy. Islamic tourism is the fastest-growing segment of Turkey's billion-dollar industry, reports the Independent. Islamic hotels have separate pools for men and women, though the beaches are no longer segregated (the coast is a "public space.") A well-known columnist, Nihal Bengisu Karaca, took her husband and son down some cliffs in search of secluded inlets to swim in. And when she did hit a beach, she wore a hasema, which she says looks "like a Ku Klux Klan cloak." More »
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