STAFF PICKS: Worst Places to Spend Spring Break
Issue date: 3/1/06 Section: Back Page
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1) SkyWay Inn
If you're forced to stay in Irving, this may seem like a fun alternative to crashing at someone's apartment. It is very thrifty, which is nice. Also, it is connected to a Wendy's, which is clutch, but you can't order the Wendy's as room-service -we've checked. Michael McMahon (UD undercover reporter) stayed here a few years ago, nearly to his perishing point, and was so distracted by his non-working bathroom that he only just had the fortitude and concentration to write one of his liberal screeds.
2) Galveston
Texas does not get an A for effort in this sorry excuse for a beach. More like a C+, or, if you're an indecisive professor, a C+/B-. It's like those city-creeks which are swollen from the street run-off from storm drains, except with more oil-rigs.
3) Seminary Hill
This may recall tender memories of the surreptitious activities of freshman year, but if you are planning a week-long picnic/bivouacking experience on Seminary Hill, you should forget it. There are so few places to pitch the picnic pavilion; and anyway, CSO will not like it: They will not like it one bit. Also, one never can be sure when the chigger season will start at UD, so it is best to take no chances.
4) Gobi Desert
Perhaps you are sick of all the usual spring break watering holes, like Cancun or Angelfire or Iowa. Perhaps you feel like you need some alone time after the stresses of the UD social scene (Sadie Hawkins, etc) to meditate on your post-college future as a philosopher-king. But don't take it too far. The Gobi Desert, while blessed with the guarantee of solitude, is actually very cold. And dry. And there might be Khan-led Mongol hordes.
If you're forced to stay in Irving, this may seem like a fun alternative to crashing at someone's apartment. It is very thrifty, which is nice. Also, it is connected to a Wendy's, which is clutch, but you can't order the Wendy's as room-service -we've checked. Michael McMahon (UD undercover reporter) stayed here a few years ago, nearly to his perishing point, and was so distracted by his non-working bathroom that he only just had the fortitude and concentration to write one of his liberal screeds.
2) Galveston
Texas does not get an A for effort in this sorry excuse for a beach. More like a C+, or, if you're an indecisive professor, a C+/B-. It's like those city-creeks which are swollen from the street run-off from storm drains, except with more oil-rigs.
3) Seminary Hill
This may recall tender memories of the surreptitious activities of freshman year, but if you are planning a week-long picnic/bivouacking experience on Seminary Hill, you should forget it. There are so few places to pitch the picnic pavilion; and anyway, CSO will not like it: They will not like it one bit. Also, one never can be sure when the chigger season will start at UD, so it is best to take no chances.
4) Gobi Desert
Perhaps you are sick of all the usual spring break watering holes, like Cancun or Angelfire or Iowa. Perhaps you feel like you need some alone time after the stresses of the UD social scene (Sadie Hawkins, etc) to meditate on your post-college future as a philosopher-king. But don't take it too far. The Gobi Desert, while blessed with the guarantee of solitude, is actually very cold. And dry. And there might be Khan-led Mongol hordes.