Originally Posted by
zoos 
It doesn't help that I'm going on vacation with my wife soon, and I would love to relax with an alcoholic beverage in the local drinking spots.
This is the part of your post that jumped out at me. Why would you love to relax with an alcoholic beverage at one of the local bars? That is not meant as a rhetorical question either. What is the appeal of that?
For nearly two decades I never went on any vacation without getting plastered. The thought of having a drink while on vacation these days invokes nothing but disgust.