I have a confession to make: I’m not very good at taking vacations. That doesn’t mean that I don’t take them at all, just that it’s a bit of a struggle. Unfortunately I’m not alone, particularly among Americans. Expedia’s annual Vacation Deprivation survey found that, in 2009, 34% of employed U.S. adults did not take their full allotment of vacation days. What’s worse is that workers in the United States receive fewer vacation days on average than those in any other major country (13 days compared to 15 in Japan, 19 in Canada, 26 in the UK, and 38 in France).