Vacation -or- Staycation

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Vacation -or- Staycation

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Sunday, July 12. 2009

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With unemployment closing in on 10%, gas prices ebbing and flowing daily, and the hospitality industry reporting 2nd quarter losses never before seen, what are you and your family planning to do?

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#1 Anonymous on 07/12/09 at 12:45 PM

vacation

#2 Sheila Tolley on 07/12/09 at 04:33 PM

staying on vacation.

#3 Anonymous on 07/12/09 at 04:39 PM

I would love to go on a vacation. But we are staycationing, this year and just like we have for the past couple of years.
I guess some felt it way before now!
If anyone would like to donate a vacation, I'll gladly accept. LOL

#4 Andrew Odom on 07/12/09 at 05:28 PM

My wife and I have decided to use the dismal economy (yes, we too have felt the crunch...especially with health insurance, credit card interest rates, and gas all going up since April or so) as an excuse to revisit the state parks within two hours of Barnesville. Camping is rather inexpensive, not much of a stress, and a chance to rediscover each other as well.

#4.1 Enoc Siuol on 07/13/09 at 09:12 AM

Absurd 1: ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous 2: having no rational or orderly relationship to human life : MEANINGLESS ; also : lacking order or value

Andrew,
This is a word that comes to mind more and more each day when marketing constantly tells me what I must have or to do, in order to be whom they think I should be. It seems to be a never ending assault of materialistic misinformation constantly chipping away at what’s left of ones self actualized identity. It’s like we must become some kind of self serving, mass consuming, drowns in order to have gotten it right.
Vacation at one time in human history was a pilgrimage. A journey to a place considered sacred enough to bring us back to the appreciation of what is of real value in life.
Congratulation! It looks to me as if you got this one right. I hope you had a good time.

#4.2 Anonymous on 07/14/09 at 10:07 AM

Some people can't even afford to do even that. We just stay at home, whip out the kiddy pool and have a blast! Pop the popcorn, grill out and watch local T.V..
Their ain't nothing like vacationing in the beautiful paradise of Barnesville, Ga!

#5 cats on 07/13/09 at 06:25 AM

We took the biggest vacation of our lives this year. It was a big anniversary also, so we wanted to do something out of the norm.

#6 Psycho on 07/13/09 at 09:19 AM

Luckily,I have a nice job and and no bills other than utilities, so it's vacation for me.

I could be just as happy doing a staycation, by going camping at the flint.

I hate for those who can not enjoy a vacation, but It's best to live within your means.

#6.1 Anonymous on 07/14/09 at 10:09 AM

Yea, I use to have a nice job to, until it went to Mexico!

#7 Anonymous on 07/14/09 at 02:24 AM

Just came back from a wonderful week in the Caribbean and will take at least one more trip this year.

#8 Andrew Odom on 07/14/09 at 10:58 AM

After a weekend without the smart phone, laptop, EMS scanner, etc, I am ready to go back. My wife and I did make a pilgrimage. We rediscovered each other what really matters; peace and quiet.

I think that even if we had money to go somewhere (other than the Alaskan cruise we dream of) we would probably just (as one person put it) stay within our means and enjoy time just away from work.

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