Back to the grind

I just got back from a week's vacation with the family at Atlantis, near Nassau in the Bahamas.

This is the third time we've gone there in the winter or spring. So that's a vote of confidence in the place.

But if we take an "escape to somewhere warm" vacation next spring break, we're going to do a little more comparison shopping. We're probably going to look at

• All-inclusive Caribbean resorts - in the hopes of spending about the same amount of money as we would at Atlantis and having either a better, or at least a different, experience.
• Southeastern U.S. beach resort hotels - in the hopes of having almost as good an experience as at Atlantis for a lot less money.

I want to make it clear that I had a perfectly good time at Atlantis. I especially like the Challenger slide, where the 4.24 seconds I achieved this time beat my previous best by more than half a second, but wasn't even in the top three times recorded that day! I'll get into this in a little more detail if anyone asks (and probably even if nobody asks).

So now it's back to the grind.