Vacationing in the Backyard

For the first time this decade, the number of Americans traveling for the Fourth of July is down. Half a million people who traveled last year will be staying home. Instead of taking an elaborate family vacation this summer, for instance, Heather Lavine, a mother from Waxahachie, Texas, scrapped her travel plans and bought her kids a $200 pool from Wal-Mart. She placed it right in the backyard of their home, which is located across the street from the source of their woes: a gas station. ... Full Story