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In article <2053@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:

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   kuno@gssm.otsuka.tsukuba.ac.jp (Yasushi Kuno) writes:

   >davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
   >> I live in Japan, but IMHO summer isn't such a good time to take a
   >> vacation as that's when everybody else does! High prices, crowded,
   >> hot. Not for me...

   >    Well, I admit, but if I got vacation on, say september, there
   >will be so few people that I might feel I was left behind from ohters...

   All depends on what you want, I guess. My idea of a vacation is to
   "get away from it all" and I find the easiest way to do that in
   Japan is to stay home! In the U.S. I would go camping in the
   mountains or the desesrt or something like that. 

   >Yes, I guess it IS the reason many Japanese take vacation around the
   >same period.  But I also admit that having vacation around the O-Bon
   >period (around 8/15) and the Golden Week (in May) is too foolish!

   It all depends on the purpose, I guess...

The same "lets all travel at once" insanity exists here in the United
States. If you've ever tried to fly anywhere in the US around
Thanksgiving or Christmas, you know what I mean. Weekends of Labor Day,
Memorial Day and any time around Independance Day the entire state of
California experiences freeway gridlock. In other parts of the country
the roads get crowded proportional to population density.

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