He remembers that he talked with one of them while they were both shaving, and that in shooting the breeze with another he led the conversation around to Greenacre when the man mentioned that Arizona was where he dreamed of spending his first post-war vacation.
Before the post-World War II vacation boom, most rentals at the Shore were either by the season or, in the case of motels, willy-nilly combinations of weekend and longer stays.
As a radical response to the American "war on vacation" and in a bid to attract the best employees, more and more Silicon Valley tech companies are offering a slew of new and unusual perks, ranging from errand-running services to organic catered lunches to unlimited vacation time.
The Democratic National Committee has been criticized for scheduling its debates at times when few Americans are likely to be tuning in, like last night: a Saturday before Christmas when voters are out shopping, watching the new "Star Wars," or vacationing.
My dad: The nerd, Star Wars geek, vacation-loving and secretly cat-loving (yes dad, although you curse Ceejay and Fatty, I know you love them) father of mine deserves the world.
He made Rockwell-like pictures of boys and their dogs, smiling soldiers returning from war, families on vacation.
The play -- Mr. Hare's first to open on Broadway since "Amy's View" in 1999 -- follows the story of an American academic and former war reporter whose vacation in Wales is seriously disrupted by a contentious older man.
The Surfside, an orange multi-angled metal structure with a peaked roof and an abundance of post-Art-Deco fixtures, was built by the Johns family in 1963, at the height of Wildwood's post-World War II motel vacation heyday.
And on the third day Israel and Hamas went to war: our family vacation became surreal.
You had, in his poignant phrase, "an inexperienced president" whose anti-intellectualism, spiteful insecurity, and provincial ignorance caused him to consciously ignore the knowledge of experts and their explicit warnings of this terrorist attack, and to focus, instead, on tax cuts for his patrons (in a time of "war") and on vacations.
