the right vacation

In August, tree-shaded neighborhoods and private membership pools all over snoburbia empty out as the entire snoburbs goes on vacation.

In snoburbia, you must choose your vacations carefully. Any beach anywhere is okay, especially if you own a beach house. If you don’t own a beach house, you must go to Cape Cod or environs, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Or California wine country, Italy or maybe the Caribbean. If you stick around here you are not interesting.

When you return from the Carolinas, you must put an OBX sticker on your black SUV.

•••