Already There

We all need to escape from our overbooked lives once in a while. What better refuge than a cabin, cottage, camp, or lodge, somewhere in the woods, on a mountain, or near a lake or river? Even if we really can't go to a place like that, we can dream about it. And in dreaming, we're already there.

It's the kind of place where.....

• the office can't contact you since your cell phone hardly works and there's no e-mail.
• you wear the same jeans and old flannel shirt for a week and no one notices.
• you run errands in a motorboat or an old pickup.
• you can't get any television reception so you start to read, and make conversation.
• you spend a rainy day tackling an impossibly complex jigsaw puzzle.