Vacation News Archive

'Take a Vacation, but not from Your Skin Care Routine (Bastrop Daily Enterprise)
(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.

'Escapes under $500: A sunny Florida retreat on Amelia Island (USA Today)
Inside the Deals column: Amelia Island, literally the first Vacation destination on Florida's east coast, is a small-town gem with a suburban core that's all beach-resort around the edges. It's the perfect sunny getaway for couples seeking quiet and romance, families who want the familiar comforts of home, and anyone who loves to play in warm ocean waters.

'Travel Heats Up as Temperature Drops - When Kids Go Back to School, Grownups Go on Vacation (SYS-CON Media)
According to a recent TripAdvisor(TM) survey of more than 2,400 travelers from around the world, fall and spring tied as the best seasons for traveling, and New England was chosen as the most desirable U.S. fall destination, by a wide margin, for the second straight year. Eighty-three percent of travelers will take a vacation this fall, down slightly from 88 percent last autumn. Nearly 50 percent

'North Cascades Vacation Paradise Cut Off By Fire (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
Wildfire has cut access to a vacation paradise near North Cascades National Park. The blaze bearing down on Stehekin, in north central Washington is one of thirty-one major forest fires burning in the Northwest.

'freeSpeech: Jim Twohie (CBS News)
Jim Twohie asks if Congress goes on vacation for the whole month of August, then don't we deserve a little more time off?

'Coastal Vacation Director Helps Mom Retire Using Vacation Power Video (PR Web)
A director with Coastal Vacations teaches his overworked retirement age mother to use the Vacation Power video http://condomemb.vacationpower.com/ to retire two years early. (PRWEB Sep 13, 2006)

'Innovative Vacation Home Pre-opening Sales Event (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Guests who want to live like they are staying at a resort on vacation and also enjoy the Valley's remarkable real estate and hospitality industries have a new alternative.

'Teen vacation horror: Mini-golf with mom (AP via Yahoo! News)
There we were on the mini-golf course in Skowhegan, Maine, where we've been taking our kids for years for a fun day while on vacation.

'Provocative Haitian vacation a tourist's guide to tragedy (Pioneer Press)
Those topics you're supposed to avoid talking about at dinner parties? They're all over "Heading South." It misses religion, but the movie hits race, class, gender, politics and money. Beginning with an opening-credits sequence that shows how Haitian tourists pass by scenes of aching poverty as their limos ferry them to sun-kissed resorts, "Heading South" examines ways the wealthy prevent

'Goodbye summer vacation (Waconia Patriot)
Goodbye summer Vacation Though the weather seemed more like summer than fall Sept. 5, the day signaled the end of summer for students returning to Orono schools for the first day of classes. In addition to the students, the Orono School District welcomes 25 new staff members this year.

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