People We Meet on VacationPoppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. Shes a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apartshes in New York City, and hes in their small hometownbut every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation