In 1904, he went to Scotland with a very particular vacation project in mind to decipher the fragmentary letters scratched on a piece of lead that had been found among the Roman remains in the city of Bath, in southwestern England.
This was a planned vacation from projects in geology — the continuation of a holiday that had begun with stream capture in the lower Mississippi and had spread forth into such innocent milieus as eruptions in Iceland and flowing red lava in Hawaii.
As in the case of vacation research projects, research may be extra-curricular [ 24].
And there is a new White House petition out to fix that, the Vacation Equality Project.
Every time you work on a project it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours.
I have never collected anything, but acquiring names of his family members, cities where he had lived, details about his projects, vacations both complete and being planned, fueled the illusion, piece by piece, that one day I could be in possession of his complete life story.
In fairness to my brothers, they borrowed money in the first place because it was critical to their lives no vacations or vanity projects here.
The students are entirely unaffiliated with the sexuality course, and are traveling as part of the university's Alternative Student Breaks program, where students voluntarily choose to spend their vacations on service projects around the country.
It would be nice to report that Crowe and Scott took an enjoyably proficient vacation from heroic filmmaking projects like "Gladiator," but it isn't so.
