Vacations

When you go on a vacation, what is it that makes it so relaxing? Is is the freedom from responsibilities, the lack of stressors (hypothetically) or is there something more? Sitting in a hotel room, using the one day free access Internet connection from the hotel, I am inclined to believe the latter. There is something relaxing that comes from the atmosphere of a different place. Even if it somewhere you have been before and/or know really well, the lack of mundane familiarity is refreshing. There is a magical element that comes from knowing you are leaving behind everything. Although you know that you must return and re-shoulder all of your daily burdens, you stop caring. Therein lies the freedom.