"It's a good getaway from everyday life," Ms. Harvey said.
"It's a getaway from normal life," said Mike Helgesen, 60, the Vyhlidal band's tenor saxophonist.
This garden practice was created 150 years ago as a getaway from court life at Samode Palace, a few miles away.
Based on the first extended interviews with the missionaries who harbored the pair, visits to places where Isabella and Ms. Miller stayed in Nicaragua and court documents, The New York Times has assembled the most complete picture yet of their getaway and subsequent life.
This real-life getaway, which, on a recent Friday, was the location for an independent movie called "Friends With Kids," was full of other incongruous sights.
What I had expected was a getaway from San Francisco city life, work deadlines, kids' car pools, the ennui of routine.
For those who can't resist the Internet's siren song, special getaway experiences offer real-life activities and bonding experiences that distract former tech fiends from the withdrawal process.
So when she heard the Osprey at Beaver Creek was offering a ReTreat Yourself getaway — combining yoga, skiing and life coaching sessions — she signed up.
That's why on days when things don't add up, I stop trying to figure them out and start to play the "what if" game, a momentary getaway from the complexities of life.
In the new movie "Hit and Run," Bell plays the devoted girlfriend of a former getaway driver (played by real-life fiancé Dax Shepard) who jeopardizes his witness-protection-plan identity in order to help her get to Los Angeles.
