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Now that my vacation is almost at an end, I thought I’d wrap it up a bit with a few lessons that I learned.

1. You don’t have to travel overnight to have a great vacation.  It’s never too late to drive home to sleep in your own bed.
2. Vacation is most definitely a state of mind.
3. No matter how tired you are, you can always find renewed energy in just seeing the world as your children see it.
4. Planning for a vacation is a lot more fun when it feels like there is no plan.
5. Fish are cool.
6. IMAX 3D movies are cool, too.
7. We are neglecting our history and our traditions for the sake of “progress”.  Pardon me, boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?  I don’t know, I can’t see it for all the shiny new stuff around the river.
8. Don’t wait 15 years before going back to visit the places where you grew up.
9. Make more time for long “lost” friends.
10. If your vacation is to occur during the summer, time must be allowed for jumping in a pool; preferrably one that is not crowded or even private.
11. Brand new movie theatres with 70mm high definition digital projectors and 40 million watt 78 speaker array Dolby THX surround sound don’t have anything on sitting in the front seat of your car watching a great movie through the FM radio with your wife and kids.
12. There are still people in Hollywood who, even when while they are blazing new technological grounds in digital, computer generated animated filmmaking, take the time to not lose sight of the thing that makes all those breakthroughs possible:  The Story.

There might be more later.  Technically speaking, we are still on vacation…