Instead, we often want to use our vacation to take behind-the-scenes looks at sites of misery and death, a practice that has been called "dark tourism".
She went away for a week's vacation, leaving behind a package to be sent later.
Among all overseas visitors to the United States, Miami ranks fourth in popularity as a vacation spot behind New York, Los Angeles and Orlando, according to the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration.
While the Lakers finished their season Wednesday in San Antonio, Bryant was in France on a family vacation, leaving behind his teammates and the Lakers' 27-55 record, their most losses ever.
The Humane Society recommends driving with your pet or leaving it behind during vacations.
But Marine Bureau records seem to bolster the police union's claims that recent cutbacks, not longstanding vacation habits, were behind the shutdown of the Huntington boat.
As a young girl living in Poland, she and her mother left town for a vacation while her father stayed behind to work (he was going to join them later).
Its core, however, is the world's largest collection of works by the conceptual provocateur Piero Manzoni, who spent his 1960 and 1961 summer vacation near Herning and left behind 37 works — including his "Merda d'artista," tin cans with the contents labeled as the artist's feces, intended to be sold for their weight in gold.
It's awfully easy to leave the charger at home and spoil your vacation with lamentations about leaving it behind.
"My family and I, we posed for this painting when we went on vacation to Hawaii," says Mark Ulriksen, the artist behind this week's cover, "Capturing Memories".
But when he was on vacation with his family, he could leave that behind.
