We’re inching closer to everyone’s favorite time of the year: Spring vacation season. And while we’re as keen as the next person to take advantage of the seasonal break and pile out of Cairo for a few days, don’t expect our thoughts to automatically drift to a villa on the Red Sea when we talk about vacation time (charming though those undoubtedly are). Instead, we’re casting our nets wide and taking a look at vacation destinations and spring festivities both familiar and obscure (some really, really obscure), as well as taking the chance to ask a few of life’s big questions, like why we travel in the first place.