Archive for May, 2006

Nude And Lewd In The Sun And Fun

Last fall, for example, Christopher Elliott wrote a column on nude vacations and it was one of the most successful Tripso columns of the year. About the same time, I noticed that my travel agency was sending a lot of clients to risqué resorts. Destinations like Hedonism Resorts in Jamaica, two SuperClubs properties where the management encourages skinny-dipping, pole dancing, toga parties, big biceps, baby oil, nude volleyball and other general naughtiness. Having never been to one of “those” resorts, and purely in the pursuit of investigative journalism (please see…

Convert Me!

Every week, one of my kids asks me if math will really help a person in the “real world.” Toeing the line, my answer is always, “Of course.” For good measure, I tell a story from a previous life, when I had to get a score of 70 percent to pass a Master Electrician licensing exam in Virginia; my employer’s project depended on my passing the exam. It came down to a question of Ohm’s law and, believe it or not, my algebra kicked in: I was able to apply…