<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Essays</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/subject/essays?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><description>Essays</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Does This Guy Look Like a Model to You?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7511-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7511-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Most people who travel love seeing foreign places.]]></description><author> Ben Brazil</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Revolution]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36557-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36557-2004Dec30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's that time of the year again, when you promise to drink less and exercise more, eat healthier and carve out more family time. But before you start the new year with such virtuous goals, we think you should indulge just a wee bit more at destinations that encourage excessiveness. (Many are also great winter escapes, so you can go now -- before your conscience tells you otherwise.) With that in mind, here are 10 ways to break those resolutions, plus one you just might want to keep. Remember, you can always be good in 2006.]]></description><author> Andrea Sachs</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll Be  CNN You . . .]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25087-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25087-2004Dec24.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[THE SCENE:  a darkened hotel room in Bologna, Bangkok or Bratislava. Outside it's raining, wiping out your sightseeing schedule for the day, but that's an academic matter anyway, since you're so badly jet-lagged that even a trip to the minibar seems hopeless. You're hungry, you've already read all the magazines you packed, and you're homesick.]]></description><author> Jerry V. Haines</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Amazing Race': It's Travelicious]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23527-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23527-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I'll put this as plainly as possible. Watch "The Amazing Race 5."]]></description><author> John Deiner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, Kids, a Giant Hairball]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50144-2004Jun17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50144-2004Jun17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's time for our annual Dream Summer Vacation Guide, wherein we reveal our list of special travel destinations that you will not hear about from the other travel writers, because they have standards.]]></description><author> Dave Barry</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pick Up That Bag, Ya Big Lug]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39868-2004Feb13.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39868-2004Feb13.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Am I the only one who looks at a concourse full of passengers dragging around those wheeled bags and sees an anemia ward? A departure gate these days is like a dayroom full of patients pulling along IV dollies hung with B12 solution and iron supplements. Everyone seems so . . . feeble.]]></description><author> Steve Hendrix</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Caribbean, By a Nose]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42037-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42037-2003Oct17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you were to ask me which smell I most associate with the Caribbean, my answer wouldn't be "sea spray," "suntan oil" or "roasting Jamaican jerk chicken." My answer would be "trash fires," even though I am deeply, passionately, certifiably in love with the Caribbean. Sorry, it's my nose and my memory, and I'm stuck with both of them.]]></description><author> Jerry V. Haines</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NOTED WITH Wonder]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42179-2000Nov19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42179-2000Nov19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On my last evening in Havana, I was standing at the seawall along the harbor when the mailman came along and put a completely different spin on my visit to the city.]]></description><author> Stephen Benz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as You Go]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44527-2001Dec14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44527-2001Dec14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I think I've figured out what going to Mass in an overseas church reminds me of: visiting Grandma and Grandpa in their new retirement condo. The view out the window is definitely different, but still . . .]]></description><author> Jerry Haines</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What If the Vacation Never Ended?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25195-2001Aug31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25195-2001Aug31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[You knew it had to end, of course -- not that it makes you feel any better.]]></description><author> Jerry Haines</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patch Man]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60583-2000Apr2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60583-2000Apr2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/subject/essays</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:39:11 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We called them "I Been There" jackets--blue Navy work jackets that we wide-eyed sailors from the Midwest would decorate with souvenir patches that the dockside "Hey, Joe" vendors sold in our Mediterranean ports of call. Malta, Istanbul, Palma de Mallorca--"Look, Ma, I Been There!"]]></description><author> Jerry Haines</author></item></channel></rss>