Downtime

One of my favorite things to do on vacation is nothing. Especially these days where I am mobilely challenged.

I travel a tremendous amount for work. Typically, I don’t add extra days for sightseeing. It tends to be travel day, work days, travel day. Frequently, these can stake up one after the other. For instance, towards the end of last month I drove to Long Island to help my sister with funeral plans for her husband. From there I drove to Canada. I delivered a two-and-a-half-day program there. From there I drove back to Maryland. The next day we got on a plane to go to Albuquerque. This one since my husband joined me, we added a couple sightseeing days – we enjoyed the balloon museum, old town, and the tram ride together. After that I had four days work, then we boarded a plane for Cancun.

The resort is lovely with a tremendous amount to do. I’ve gotten to enjoy several guilt free days lounging in the room – reading and writing. For me, downtime, like this is the best.

Once we return, it will be go – go – go again.

I do look forward to continued improvement in my mobility so I can comfortably keep up with my husband.

We are fortunate in that we have enjoyed many vacations together, as well as the international travel my work has taken us to.

At this point Antarctica is the only continent that we haven’t been to. We’ve done more than a dozen cruises. Cruises that have allowed us to explore much of Europe, the Caribbean and North America. I can’t say if I like the big ocean cruise ships better or the small river cruises. Each are wonderful, but they are two very different experiences.

My husband is an avid skier, I am not. He has come to appreciate; how much I appreciate the downtime. We’ve done many a ski vacation, where he skis and I enjoy reading and writing.

We do enjoy experiencing golf where ever we go. Our favorite golf story is playing in Alaska. We were on a cruise and there was an excursion that included golf. We signed up. The excursion was six hours. This seemed long for 9 holes of golf, but we soon discovered it included a bus tour and lunch. We also learned that if the tide was up, it would include over boats.

Upon our arrival we learned we were the largest tour group they had ever had (eleven of us). The course was compact enough that everyone was expected to walk (they owned a single golf cart). The views were breathtaking and we lucked out that we didn’t have to take advantage of the local rule of free drops from the bear scat.

We are looking at some repositioning cruises, as the at sea days afford many hours of down times.

So many legacy moments from vacations over the last fifteen years.