(MONEY Magazine) – $820 Explore Cozumel's Palancar Reef, the world's second largest natural coral formation. A package for two at Paradisus Cozumel Beach Resort (888-341-5993) includes three nights' accommodations, scuba lessons and daily dives (but not air fare).

$45,000 General Motors recently unveiled the first civilian Hummer (left), which is expected to be available to off-road fanatics in 2002 for between $40,000 and $50,000.

$120 On your next mountain trek (or off-road drive), bring along Garmin International's eTrek hand-held GPS, which stores up to 500 locations to create a virtual bread crumb trail.

$0 A screensaver from the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute pumps out data on would-be E.T.s from the world's largest radio telescope. Go to setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu.

$360 Discover the inner you at Esalen, a 27-acre mecca of spiritual enlightenment in Big Sur, Calif. The Tao of Practice meditation workshop is Oct. 6-8. (Price includes room and board for three days; go to www.esalen.com.)

--GRACE JIDOUN