The phrase "distant vacation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a vacation that is far away in terms of distance, either in another country or a far-off location. Example: "After months of hard work, I finally took a distant vacation to the beautiful beaches of Bali."
They looked at the document as at a souvenir from a distant vacation.
It is virtually impossible to imagine New Yorkers putting up with their mayor embarking on a distant vacation without a reliable phone signal, as Johnson did in the Rockies in 2011.
The same rule applies to a family leave or a distant vacation: Communicate your unavailability before the fact.
Your bitter posts from your college library, silly comments on friends' wedding photos, and dispatches from distant vacation check-ins can all be distilled from the rest of your content.
If you choose a more distant vacation spot, pick the most environmentally friendly means of getting there.
Even financially stable friends of mine have quickly cut back on lunches, cable packages, distant vacations, car size, coffee, A.T.M. visits and lawn treatments — and noticed that daily life does not suffer.
Now, as the evening hours convey those first hints of autumn, the season of New York backyards is coming to a close, and with it a busier summer than most for these hidden urban rectangles, plenty of New Yorkers having forgone distant vacations because of high gas and travel costs, and simply opened the back door instead.
Note: The "amnesia effect" was especially strong when thoughts strayed to a distant place (a vacation abroad) or time (two or more weeks ago).
But I know, through my decades of travelling, that the benefits of any action vacation become distant memories once you're back at work.
It was just that the idea of suicide provided an almost practical comfort, like the thought of a vacation to a distant island from which you never came back.
After years of photographing distant places where the family vacationed, Mr. Cammann, retired as a bank employee, began concentrating on the Island during the last decade of his life, Ms. Franco said, because he thought "there was a gold mine here on Long Island that didn't have to cost anything to see".
