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Thriving on an almost-deserted island

Thriving on an almost-deserted island

A screed on Vacationland

Jun 16, 2021
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They say that vacation is a state of mind. Who says? I don’t know exactly, but there are 164,000,000 Google results for the phrase, so lots of people.

I didn’t really grow up in a “vacation” family. “Vacation” was a camping trip at an Arizona state park in between art fairs; “vacation” was visiting family in California, or attending a family reunion near…

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