Crook's wife is a teacher, meaning there's little wiggle room for vacations outside the summer months. He does freelance PR, which is more flexible in terms of scheduling but less stable in terms of job security. "The economic uncertainty of being a laptop warrior — as an email professional or a white-collar professional right now — it's just very up in the air," he says. "With everything going on in the economy and the world, we just feel like it's like month to month, what can we do?" Many