"How are things back at the office?" one of the gentlemen in my bicycle tour group asked me as we were nearing the end of a lengthy ride through the scenic countryside. "I assume they are going fine," I said. " I haven t had any contact and I don t plan to. Why would I ruin the environment we had traveled thousands of miles to create by bringing my work environment into it?" One of the primary purposes of taking a vacation is to rest and restore. How can you accomplish that goal if you simply move the source of the stress to a different location?