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When T.S. Eliot said that it is the journey, not the arrival, that matters, he surely was not thinking of a journey to Paris on a commerical airline, at a cost of $1,400, following a two-hour wait on the tarmac, in which cocktails on oversears flights are no longer free.  Read more 

Many people don't take vacations often enough. In fact, according to a poll on this site, around half of readers don't take annual vacations; in fact, many readers never take them! And now with increasing frequency, when we do take vacations, we often bring work along with us, keeping ourselves essentially still in the work mindset we’re trying to escape.  Read more 

Gas prices are going up, the economy is going down, and it seems hard to justify a vacation when many of us are glad just to have jobs. But now, more than ever, we need to take a break — a real break, not just a long weekend — from our stressed-out lives.   Read more