Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created Dilbert, comes up with the idea of a virtual vacation in the Wall Street Journal after spending some time underwater in a Costa Rican kayak.
If you applied some serious science to the field of vacations, could you design an experience with most of the benefits but at a lower cost and with fewer hassles?
An ethnic restaurant with "authentic" decor is a "virtual" experience, as is Chinatown in Vancouver or San Francisco. Maybe he's on to something.
You can read it all here.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
We enjoy sharing our travel experiences and providing the odd travel tip to friends, relatives, and visitors.