Vacation News Archive
04-Sep-2006
- 'Taking a Work Break with Vocation Vacation (NPR)
Vocation Vacation offers stuck-in-a-rut types the chance to try a new line of work and find mentors. Founder Brian Kurth tells Scott Simon that the program needs mentors in the fields of digital animation, film directors and marine biologists. - 'Take a Vacation, but not from Your Skin Care Routine (Derby Daily Reporter)
(ARA) - Summer Vacation offers a time-honored tradition of getting away from it all - from the pressures of the office to the hectic car-pool schedule and everyday errands. It's a chance to be carefree and forget the constraints of the day-to-day. - 'LABOR DAYHAVES AND HAVE NOTS No vocation vacation (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
Labor Day for Mike Pierre, the owner of Mission ACE Lumber & Hardware in Santa Rosa, will be just that - a day of labor. - 'Before beginning your vacation, think about this ... (Albany Democrat-Herald)
Coming home to a messy house after work is bad enough. Coming home to a messy house after a week-long vacation is a nightmare. - '`How I Shot My Summer Vacation' (The Charlotte Observer)
Serious or silly, send us your best shot for our annual "How I Shot My Summer Vacation" contest. On Sept. 17, we'll publish winners in these categories: Best All-Around Photo, Best People Picture and Best Scenic Shot. - 'Whee! School's opening! Time to vacation with the wee set (The Morning Call)
Lucky stiffs! - 'Three local firefighters among those taking on wildland blazes in the west (Williamsport Sun Gazette)
For some hardy souls, taking two weeks off for vacation means waking up at dawn and working all day in heat, smoke and sometimes in dangerous conditions all day long, strictly as a volunteer. - 'ON VACATION (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Like to travel? Want to be in the paper? Do we have a deal for you. We want to see you on your vacation -- holding a Herald-Leader. Send us the picture and tell us where you are and when you were there. You must include your name, address and a daytime phone number. Send it via e-mail to vacationphotos@herald-leader. com (it should be in JPEG format, at least 3 MB in size and the full image file; - 'Blunt, Romney take Alaska vacation (Columbia Daily Tribune)
Some wonder whether Missourian fishing for nomination. BOSTON (AP) - Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt took a secret vacation to Alaska this past week with Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, but salmon wasn?t the only thing on the agenda. - 'Americans hit the road despite high gas prices (AFP via Yahoo! News)
High gas prices and new security checks at US airports don't appear to be discouraging Americans, who are expected to travel more than last year this Labor Day weekend, which wraps up the summer Vacation season.
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