When you become an adult, and have to work, and pay bills, and then you become a parent, and you have to work harder to pay bills, the promise of a little time away from your life is precious, wonderful, sultry, tasty, special and increasingly hard to find. KnowwhatImean?
Clan of T-bone will have that time away, albeit too short and maybe not far enough away. The Petite Filet is going to a legal seminar for work in San Antonio on a Thursday. We'll hoof it down there the Wednesday before, stay on her employer's tab for two nights, roll on down to Corpus Christi for a day and night of beach fun, and then scoot on back to San Antone for a final day and night. Then, we face the drive back during which we alternately want to be home and yet don't. I imagine most of you have been on similar sojourns before.
Later in April, the PF and I will sneak away for an overnight of romance for our anniversary to a lovely hotel on a canal not far from here where lovely things are sure to happen.
Then she will leave me and the Cutlet and the dog at home to go to some basket thing in Ohio. Glad I'm not expected to go on that trip.
Here are some wonderful things I like about traveling:
• You can wear the same pair of underwear for five days in a row and nobody will tell you that you stink. Wait, maybe that's just while camping.
• You can let it all hang out (within reason) because chances are you're not going to bump into anyone you know. Except maybe your own conscience.
• A change of scene is a natural need in our modern times. The humdrum of life as we know it needs a little shaking up, so hit the road, mighty travelers!
• You can wear whatever you want (unless you're the PF at a legal seminar; she'll have to dress respectively). Me? I'm planning to wear only shorts, and may go sockless nearly the entire trip.
• You don't have to go to work!
• You can eat whatever you want, and somebody else will cook it, because calories don't count while you're on vacation.
• You get to explore new places you've never been, and take a little bit of that back home with you. Or, if not, you can just buy a T-shirt and call it done.
• No checking e-mail! The PF will have her laptop, but I ain't going to get on it.
• If your trip includes the beach (as ours does for a day), experience nature's natural exfolient with the sand and saltwater. Bonus: weird things sometimes wash up on the beach.
Have fun! I'll keep an eye out for you - SA is a small town.
You totally forgot the whole thing where you get to see all the weird people that live in other parts of the world (where they don't know how to drive, or have really bad sports teams, or you can't get a decent milk shake) and thereby make you appreciate your own backyard a little more.
Have a fun time!!
Wait..she's going to a basket weaving thing in Ohio? Just what does the PF do? Does she work in a mental hospital?
Have a good trip! I love getting away, even for a day or so. I cannot relax in my own house for some reason (too make projects calling my name) so getting away every now and again is key to my sanity!
That last trip on the list sounds very much like a Longerberger trip to me. I've never been on one, but know lots of folks who have.
Cas
Enjoy all your trips.
Have a good trip... and wash your own underwear when you get home. Might wanna hide those babies under a bunch of towels in the meantime.
Hey - I am taking your advice - Kman and I are headed to Big Bend Adventures next week! Yay!
Something tells me you're about to turn into Henry David Thoreau.
damn! You're good. Refreshing and to the point.
Citrus
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