Slow Ride

January / February, 2012

This New Year's Eve, instead of watching the ball drop in Times Square or making excuses to get out of your neighbor's party, book an impromptu trip and experience something unexpectedCHRISTMAS ISLAND ? If you're a fanatical early adopter who camps outside the Apple store to buy the latest iThing, Christmas Island is the place for you. Its population is less than a hundredth of Vermont's, and get­ting there takes three hours from Hawaii. But thanks to a 1995 adjustment to the Interna­tional Date...