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Bostonist has watched in shock and awe as the Boston Globe has sympathetically chronicled the increasingly ludicrous vacation woes affecting the financially overprivileged. Sometimes those visiting their "friends" just get sick of the razor sharp sisal rugs and use their sensitive soles to walk right out of a Cape Cod summer home and into a Hummer or Prius, and then drive into the wilderness. (After all, being in the wilderness reminds us of survival instincts, and survival instincts remind us of how we pulled ourselves up from the bootstraps we got at Macy's, and allows us to recognize how much we deserve to relax, but in a civilized manner, and not with people who might have bought generic bootstraps.) Thus, an article from Saturday's Globe introduces the concept of "glamping" -- high-end near-nature habitation that offers on-grounds amenities such as butlers and silk-lined sleeping bags. Oh, and no bugs.