Staycation

Our local newspaper, the Martinsville Bulletin, has a front page story today about people in this rural region of southwest Virginia mostly staying home this year for the 4th of July week, instead of going to the beach or whatever. Gas prices, the economy in general, and other reasons have (obviously) curtailed things that millions used to do in the past, with hardly a thought. For many, a "staycation" will be taking the place of a normal vacation to places far away from home. That's not necessarily bad, because there are usually quite a lot of interesting things to see and do close to home, which most of us have never taken advantage of. Hard to say how deep our economic problems will go, but from all the gloom and doom you read and hear in the media, we ain't there yet. Whatever, here's to a great 4th of July for everyone reading this post. Proud to be an American!