Holiday Headache

Was it really too much, asking the Web to help me find a New Year's getaway? Apparently so

All I wanted was a cozy log cabin in Maine, somewhere deep in the woods, to toast the New Year under the stars. It was to be my first vacation with my boyfriend, and I wanted it to be perfect. So rather than waste money on a guidebook that was bound to be outdated before it hit the shelves, I decided to search online. Little did I know that when I typed the words Maine log cabin rental at altavista.com I was stepping into 48 hrs. of Internet hell.

Forget dinner, forget work, forget sleep. I was glued...

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