VACATION ITEMS

Things I've learned on my latest vacation to the East Coast (Ocean City, MD) include but are not limited to:

- SPF 15 is no longer adequate to protect my formerly invulnerable skin, except for my face, which I guess makes sense when you think about it

- I seem to have lost my taste for Maryland hard-shell crabs

- The prehensile-tailed porcupine has the most hilarious face and mien of all small mammals upon the Earth

- Just because you are on vacation does not make you immune to microbes