Living a healthy life, working out, and nutrition are important ways to stay healthy and active. In these crisis-ridden days, people are so stressed out about spending money, but economic crisis should not take the right from people to take a summer vacation. Taking a vacation is another way to ensure a low stress and healthy lifestyle.

According to my experience, taking trip to Russia brought me much positive energy and remarkable memories. I think the best way to deal with the stress is traveling to another place you have never been before or dear place where you were born and grew up with your friends. It helps us realize the importance of life and we become aware that life is so amazing and remarkable.

Moreover, taking vacations bring us the sense of satisfaction and lets us meet many interesting people. Sharing out interests and opinions with new friends assists to build a very steady connection between different cultures. People are very fascinated by traditional food, social life, and economic way of foreign countries. It makes any culture so unusual and unique.

Besides, spending time with my parents in Russia was another way to recover from stress. Having interesting discussion about anything, having nice dinner in circle of family, or just hanging out with them for no reason can help us to feel good and not alone.

Dealing with the stress requests patience and wisdom. We need to learn how to relax and find a harmony during vacation and traveling. Today I was reading about the HomeAway Save Our Summer Vacation Movement where over 2,000 people have signed a petition to send to the US Congress. The petition is about establishing a National Holiday on August 7th called National Vacation Day.

I think that this is an incredible idea and all of America deserves a summer vacation. In addition to the petition, HomeAway is also holding a contest to win a dream summer vacation valued at $10,000. I think that all readers should take this chance to join the Save Our Summer Vacation petition and also enter the HomeAway.com contest.