My vacation was beginning to seem like work.
The trend goes beyond the high seas: Even in river barging, an increasingly popular form of cruising, the short vacation is beginning to take hold.
In-season vacations for umpires began in 1979 as part of an agreement that settled a labor dispute.
Air travel is rarely relaxing, and you can easily wind up feeling stressed and spent before your vacation has even begun.
There they stayed until the early summer of '81, when vacation from college began.
A newspaper column this summer by a reporter returning to the trains after vacation began, "The monster is back."
It was our last chance to exchange holiday presents before vacation began.
For one of these teams, a three-month vacation begins tonight.
A typical vacation for the couple begins in the car ride to a judicial conference, six hours together, the simple pleasures of talk.
Tom presently wondered to find that his coveted vacation was beginning to hang a little heavily on his hands.