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Trends: An old-fashioned vacation, anyone?
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Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, July 6, 2008
Story appeared in TRAVEL section, Page M
Photo Caption: A vacation with unpleasant houseguests might be a suffercation. McClatchy Tribune/C. L. Bruner
The staycation...the mancation ... the nakation ... the babymoon. ... Who isn't fed up with all the impossibly cornball names dreamed up to market niche travel experiences?
The Washington Post Travel section recently asked readers for help in exacting revenge. They did not disappoint in contributing nominees for a Stupidcation – that is, a themed trip and the requisite cute thing to call it.
Some were as timeless as a honeymoon. (Trips taken for the express purpose of being in weddings should be called altarcations, wrote Caroline Cardullo of Rockville, Md.) Others were signs of the times.
Depending on your political persuasion, the candidacy of a certain senator from Illinois is cause for either an Obamacation – a trip that allows you to be chipper and upbeat despite stale doughnuts – or an Obamanation, a sojourn for Hillary Clinton, John McCain and others united by "outrage and surprise at what the country has become."
Selecting the finest was, at best, an exercise in frustcation. But the staff couldn't help trying anyway. Herewith, the 10 most inspired Stupidcation submissions.
• A trip to visit relatives you don't really want to visit is clearly an oblication.
• Elderhostiles: Finally, a name for all those trips that angry senior couples take.
• Had enough of your nagging parents? It's time for an oyveycation.
• Disgraced CEOs of subprime lenders may well escape responsibility by going on a foreclojourney.
• Louisiana weekends that skimp on neither gumbo nor zydeco are – what else? – vacajuns.
• When the 4-year-old continually asks "Are we there yet?" it's a cinch you're on a whine country tour.
• You get the grandparents to watch the kids, lie and tell everyone you're leaving town, then luxuriate in your fakation.
• September is dumptrek season, that time of year when you generously agree to help the kids return to college.
• A cellabreaktion is a trip on which nobody brings a cellphone.
• Visiting Canada solely for the cheap prescription drugs? It's a Pill Grim Age.
– Washington Post
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