SUMMER VACATION: Tired of the Grand Canyon?...

By Lanie Jones and Helene Elliott

Aug. 18, 1991 12 AM PT

SUMMER VACATION: Tired of the Grand Canyon? Does a Hawaiian trip sound--yawn--like everyone else’s vacation? Perhaps a channeling conference on Crete is what the doctor ordered. . . . A Laguna Beach travel outfit is offering that and other “alternative” vacation packages, including a January UFO conference at the Great Pyramid in Egypt. But spokeswoman Holly James admits such holidays are not for everyone: “It’s not like people are coming in off the street to say, ‘Hey, got any metaphysical tours?’ ”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

SUMMER VACATION: Tired of the Grand Canyon?...

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