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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

GRAD SCHOOL TRAVEL MARTYR

I’m going back to school this summer, to complete my MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Goucher College. It’s a great program with a tremendous faculty, and this summer’s two-week residency is packed with stellar guest lecturers (Mary Karr, Kathryn Harrison, Ted Conover; last summer, John McPhee dropped by and deconstructed one of his pieces for us).

I am really, really looking forward to getting back into the groove of being a student after a year off. The only thing dragging me down, along with the prospect of completing a 150-page manuscript by next spring, is the fact that the residency impinges on my ability to take an extended trip with my son Isaac this summer. (He recently gave me permission to use his name here. )

Now I could, but based on my experience in 2004, when I came home from 10 days in Costa Rica and scooted up to Baltimore for two weeks THE VERY NEXT DAY, this would not be a wise move. Nor would piggybacking onto Isaac’s trip with his father to Ecuador right after the residency this summer -- as tempting as that might be. I've considered flying down and Isaac and I doing something that complimented the first leg of their trip (which will probably include the Galápagos). It just feels like too much, especially since I am going to be working through all this, and over the course of the next two semesters.

I know it’s only one summer, but it’s the only summer Isaac will be nine, and in a few years he’s probably going to be going off on his own to places like Spain and Brazil and Bolivia with his soccer coaches.

Anyway, there's always next summer.

This summer, we’ll probably do something short and sweet in New England and the mid-Atlantic, combine visiting friends with visiting places like Plymouth and Salem, Mass., or, closer to home, Williamsburg and Jamestown. (Yes, I have U.S.-history-lesson motives here.) With stateside vacations in mind, here’s a fun sweeps, five nights in one of Marriott’s 2,700 continental U.S. hotels, airfare on CheapTickets and a six-day car rental from Herz. To enter, CLICK HERE. Warning: You have to play a game matching U.S. “Wonders of America” postage stamps with the region they’re depicting, but like so many of these things, you can enter even if you get every question wrong. You can enter once a day daily until the sweeps closes on July 15.

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