Arrange to have pets cared for. Don't publicize your travel plans. If you still have your heat on, set the thermostat to a low setting. Just be sure that when you vacation in colder months you do not set it so low that water lines might freeze. In the fall, have leaves raked, and in the winter, arrange for snow removal.
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Here's a list of suggestions gleaned from several sources. Not if you're vacationing with kids. With dozens of new hotels, restaurants swathed in their best linen and museums, there isn't a better place to visit on the Mediterranean. If you want to spend part of your vacation a step back in time, try Charleston, S.C., with its Southern gentility, antebellum homes and a very walkable historic district and fort. When you tire of the bright lights and big city, there's a place, just two hours by car from Las Vegas, where eons light the way and silence is the only music.