Few words strike fear into the hearts of longtime married couples like the phrase “family vacation.” In terms of terrors, it ranks right up there with “my mother is coming to live with us.”
It’s not that family vacations are in and of themselves bad; it’s that they’re perfect opportunities for disaster.
Families are a biological fact. Two people get together and produce children — anywhere from one to a hundred. Not all of these unions end well, but, for our purposes today, we’re talking a family with a dad, mom, assorted children and maybe a dog.