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" 16 Things to Do Before Labor Day SUMMER SHOULD HAVE a personal beginning, something that has nothing to do with astronomy, astrology, or when the Sumerians decided it was time to put the beans in the ground. Summer begins the first time you ride in a convertible with the top down, say, or at the moment the halter tops start running around SoHo. The start of summer is when you first turn the garden or eat an ice-cream cone without wearing a hat. For me, summer doesn&amp;#039;t begin until I hear the Isley Brothers sing &amp;quot;That Lady (Parts 1 and 2)&amp;quot; randomly on the car radio. Maybe yours doesn&amp;#039;t begin until you hit that first pure 1-iron. Hey, there&amp;#039;s always hope. It&amp;#039;s summer.  1 Walk a path in the woods that has no other footprints. 2 Go bodysurfing in cold water.  3. See a drive-in movie. At the Fairlee Drive-In on Route 5 in Fairlee, Vermont. Two minutes off the interstate (I-91). Sleepy? Check into one of the rooms at the Fairlee Motel, each of which is fitted with a picture window for watching the big outdoor screen.  4. Visit a completely useless roadside museum. 5. Visit Solly&amp;#039;s Grille in Glendale, Wisconsin (4629 North Port Washington Street; 414-332-8808), home of the &amp;quot;butter burger,&amp;quot; a patty served with a big slab of butter on top of it. Not to be outdone in the effort to render America&amp;#039;s arteries the consistency of PVC pipe, there&amp;#039;s the &amp;quot;guber burger,&amp;quot; the specialty of the house at the Wheel Inn Drive In in Sedalia, Missouri (1800 West Broadway; 660-826-5177), a thin burger served with a tasty peanut-butter glaze on top. 6. Save room for dessert. (Hell, it&amp;#039;s not like there was a lot of peanut butter on that burger.) Ice cream might be just the thing to cleanse the palate. Try the (refreshing?) cucumber or fresh-local-mint flavors at J. P. Licks in Boston (352 Newbury Street; 617-236-1666), the Grape-Nuts at Gray&amp;#039;s in Tiverton, Rhode Island (15 East Road; 401-624-4500), or the rosewater sorbet at Mashti Malone&amp;#039;s in Los Angeles (1525 North La Brea Avenue; 323-874-0144).  7. Join your fellow gluttons at a food festival. Browse the smoked-meat booths at Le Festival de la Viande Boucanee in Ville Platte, Louisiana (June 23 to 24; 337-363-9700). Finish the summer at the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in downtown Morgan City (August 31 to September 4; shrimp-petrofest.org). The shrimp and the petroleum, we assume, are served separately.  8. If you have a beard, eat cotton candy in a strong breeze.  9.Launch your career in competitive eating. The folks at the International Federation of Competitive Eating (ifoce.com) will help you. 10. Drink a cold beer behind the backstop after a softball game or a gin and tonic on the veranda as the nightingales sing in the lilacs. (Don&amp;#039;t have a veranda? No problem. Visit doityourself.com/deck.)  11. On the Fourth of July, drive down a highway from which you can see the fireworks displays from several towns as you pass them. We highly recommend the stretch of I-85 between Greenville and Anderson in South Carolina, especially the area around Lake Hartwell.  12. Cycle naked in Austin (June 10; worldnakedbikeride.org), and, for God&amp;#039;s sake, don&amp;#039;t slip off the seat. Then wander on up just north of Austin and swim nekkid at Hippie Hollow on Lake Travis. Grab a plane and fly to Maui, where, on Little Beach at Makena, you can dance naked around a fire (littlebeachmaui.com). Please try to stay on your feet.  13. Avoid the crowds at the residences of more famous--and vastly more competent--presidents of the United States. Drop in at Wheatland in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (wheatland.org), the home of James Buchanan, who has become oddly more relevant over the past five years.  14. Catch and release.  15. Catch and serve with lemon.  16. Spend more than two hours of a single day in a hammock. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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