Saturday, April 21, 2012

Spring Break three different ways

By Keith Still

Spring Break. From the earliest days of kindergarten, we are conditioned to anticipate the annual spring holiday. We look forward to it. We count down the bleak mid-winter days until that breath of fresh Spring Break air arrives. It?s our reward for all of those mornings standing out at the bus stop in the cold and the dark.

Then we go off to college, and Spring Break takes on a whole new meaning. It?s no longer a few days off with the chance for a small vacation. It?s a weeklong party designed to blow off the collective steam of thousands of collegians at once. It?s an American bacchanalia, held wherever they will let us get away with this kind of behavior ? but preferably with a warm beach nearby.

Obviously, not every college student rushes off to MTV-style Spring Break locations, but you would be hard-pressed to find a single student who isn?t looking forward to a few days away from the books ? especially right now, in mid-February.

Given those …

Source: http://blogs.ajc.com/still-traveling-blog/2011/02/16/spring-break-three-different-ways/?cxntfid=blogs_still_traveling_blog

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