The American vacationer unable to silence his inner Puritan for those paltry 13 days a year must combine his holiday with some self-improving experience.
HOLIDAYS in the BlackBerry era can be divided into two categories: "soft" (where the vacationer stays in radar contact and continues to exercise his thumbs) and "hard" (when he staves off divorce by switching everything off).
Robert Donat played the archetypal Hitchcock protagonist: an innocent vacationer unwillingly drawn into an elaborate scheme hatched by a nest of spies.
Other times a vacationer might glimpse the grisly discard from the corner of her eye, a serene walk along the beach interrupted just like that.
A returning vacationer reports that all the souvenirs in a Howard Johnson gift shop on the Maine turnpike -- ashtrays, bottle openers, banks etc. in… Having finished some overtime work at her office one night, a secretary was obliged to take a service elevator to the lobby.
One pictures the vacationer naked on a bed, and squinting into his or her little book to moan, "Oh yeah!" "Easy, tiger," "Faster," "Harder," "Slower," "Softer".
The vacationer followed the Jefferson Highway a long way out, via two buses and some walking.
I rarely hear an American vacationer say to a waiter or a shopkeeper in Europe, "Your English is so good".
A solitary young man visits Bermuda, where a chance conversation with another vacationer reinforces his loneliness.
Subsequently, I haven't been much of a vacationer.
In a back office, the vacationer found the company's secretary, Barbara Milano, a woman with blond-gray hair and blue eyes.
