A favorite vacation is a fishing trip on Lake Bistineau, two blocks from the home of Mrs. Al-Ghareeb's parents, Edwin and Irene Davis.

Finally last fall, we felt our children were old enough, and over the Oct. 1 National Day holiday, we ventured on a five-day trip that became one of our favorite short vacations.

It went: 'The best favorite vacation in the nation is one you can't know; you'd think it blows.'

During one of their favorite vacations, they moored the boat on the New Jersey side of New York Harbor so they could soak up the view of the Manhattan skyline.

But it did not prevent Wilson striking up, in due course, an acquaintance with a frisky widow, whom he met in his favorite vacation haunt, Bermuda.

"Where is your favorite vacation spot?"

My favorite vacation spot?

But Dr. Brazelton's favorite vacations were when his children were young; they're now 40, 38, 35, and 29.

In 1987, while returning from Reno (their favorite vacation spot), Cole and Toody decided they wanted to play rock 'n' roll again.

We made the trip with our two sons and, curiously enough, it turned out to be one of my favorite vacations.