It's not real easy for me to take a 10-day vacation - that is pushing the maximum for my job too. ; I can get away with it by booking 10-day cruises that go over 2 weekends, so I'm only having to take 6 days off of work, and I also bring my netbook with me so I can still take some time on the ship to access e-mail and follow up on some clients - make sure everything's hunky dory at the office (I remote into my office computer so I can print stuff for coworkers to mail out for me, and can access the client database and such).