Saturday Word: Coolcation, and other travel neologisms

[med_cat]

Coolcation

noun [kool-kay-shuhn]

In response to record-high temperatures and heat waves, planning a vacation in a colder climate where you will more likely shiver than sweat.

Used in a sentence: While their friends overheated in Europe this summer, Rick and Raquel gamely bundled up on their coolcation in Goose Bay, Canada.
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You can find quite a few interesting (and some of them, peculiar) words and concepts in the source article from Washington post (gift link, but I'm told Wash Post asks new users to create an account, which, I hasten to assure you, is quick and free):

Bleisure, buddymoon and gamping: Your guide to the new travel trends

...or, if you'd rather, full_metal_ox kindly provided an external link to the article: archive.ph/k9tAL

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

Jumped the paywall for you: https://archive.ph/k9tAL

[med_cat]

Thanks, have added this to the post :)

[sallymn]

Oooh, thank you for the word and the link!

[med_cat]

My pleasure :)

[a_natural_beauty]

This is a fun little word! Thank you for sharing!

[med_cat]

You're most welcome! Glad you found it of interest. Do check out the article--there are several other interesting words in it.

[a_natural_beauty]

Okay, thank you! :D

[prettygoodword]

As a desert denizen, most of our summer travels are coolcations.

(I initially misread that as colocation -- just a small shift of letters.)

[med_cat]

:))