Why Mexico when I have a couch?

It’s here; the editorials on the Yahoo homepage about Miami Beach and Cancun trip destinations, the spam e-mails offering crazy discount prices for week-long stays in beach houses that sleep 20; almost everywhere and impossible to avoid are pictures of 18 to 25 year olds partying away in the sun for spring break. 

According to studentcity.com, a promotional Web site for “The College Spring Break,” the top destinations for 2010 include the Bahamas and Acapulco, Mexico.

USA Today stated last year an estimated 170,000 college students fled to the Gulf of Mexico and ended up in the foreign city of Cancun, spending their week in March under the hot rays and influence of tequila.

As of this year, it looks like the students of Clackamas Community College will be vacationing the broke college life way, without a passport.

This cuts the price but doesn’t necessarily cut the fun. Who says you can’t vacation in the good old United States? 

Students like Justin Baldwin plan of road tripping. Whether to favorite, undiscovered or traditional spring break spots, a road trip is a road trip. Have we not all seen the movie?

A cheaper alternative to overseas, Baldwin and his girlfriend will be driving down to Disneyland over break and lucking out by getting to stay with family while in California.

Another student, Kate Spittle, while saving her bucks plans on house-sitting before moving to Alaska for spring term to attend Alaska University in Juneau.

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