What Next - Off-the-Record: Friends Don’t Let Friends Ruin Vacation

What Next - Off-the-Record: Friends Don’t Let Friends Ruin Vacation

Published: August 28, 2026

Duration: 6:33

The idea of a big ol’ group of friends taking a vacation sounds so fun…in theory. In practice, though, the museum friends and the beach friends are forming opposing factions, and the vegetarian friend is hovering between malnourishment and total banishment. But these problems have one elegant solution: the parallel play vacation.


Guest: Luke Winkie, Slate staff writer and author of “There’s Only One Palatable Way to Travel With Friends.”


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