Like many Americans, pulling off a ski vacation is kind of a caper for our family, with cut-rate airfares, lift packages and peanut butter sandwiches on the hill instead of $12 bowls of chili.
Clarke Joyner of Dads on Vacation was kind enough to share some of these incredibly hilarious photos of dads being anything but cool on vacation.
And I guess in my mind I wasn't, though the thought he become fat over summer vacation seems kind of ridiculous.
And I guess in my mind I wasn't, though the thought 'he become fat over summer vacation' seems kind of ridiculous.
(Boehner says that the president won't get any more "blank checks," but that was precisely what Mitch McConnell was offering before I left on vacation!) What kind of negotiations get bogged down when everyone accedes to everyone else's demands?
"The biggest cost on a wine vacation is the kind of hotel you stay in and the kind of restaurants you dine at," says Densmore.
The predictable two-week summer vacation -- a kind of endurance test for American families in the epoch of big Detroit cars and new superhighways -- is no longer the norm and hasn't been for quite some time.
But the dancing was forgettable, whereas the visit to the island — it takes an hour to walk around its periphery — stays bright in your memory, a summer vacation of a kind.
Opened 11 years ago on the old parking lot of the original Disneyland, California Adventure was intended to complement its sister park and turn Anaheim into a multiday vacation hub — a kind of miniature Orlando, Fla., where Disney has six theme parks and three dozen hotels.
"Postcard from Paris," a relatively obscure Webb song (it was recorded by Campbell and John Denver, among others, and was retitled "Wish You Were Here" on "Ghost on the Canvas"), is among the most melodically beautiful pieces on the new album, and also the most thematically mournful — it frames a European vacation as a kind of exile from home, or possibly even from the self.
