Vacation

A vacation (or holiday) is a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism. People often take a vacation during specific holiday observances, or for specific festivals or celebrations. Quotes What Dad means by "see" of course, is "drive past at 67 miles per hour." Dad feels it is a foolish waste of valuable vacation time to get out of the car and actually go look at an attraction. Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need. Leave for a while thy costly country seat;And, to be great indeed, forget The nauseous pleasures of the great:Make haste and come:Come, and forsake thy cloying store;Thy turret that surveys, from high,The smoke, and wealth, and noise of Rome;And all the busy pageantry That wise men scorn, and fools adore:Come, give thy soul a loose, and taste the pleasures of the poor. John Dryden, Imitation of Horace, 29th Ode Sometimes 'tis grateful to the rich to tryA short vicissitude, and fit of poverty:A savoury dish, a homely treat,Where all is plain, where all is neat,Without the stately spacious room,The Persian carpet, or the Tyrian loom,Clear up the cloudy foreheads of the great. John Dryden, Imitation of Horace, 29th Ode Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. Cowardly Lion (Wizard of Oz) (1939) The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting. Gertrude Stein, Paris, France, 1940 (New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 107). VacationAll I ever wantedVacationHad to get awayVacationMeant to be spent alone. The Go-Go's, Vacation, from Vacation (1982). External links vacation Category:Themes