It's been quite a few years since the workload allowed me to take 2 weeks off. American business culture, for some reason, frowns on people taking off more than a week or 10 days. It's a strange custom. Capitalism seems alive and well in Europe where taking a month off is considered normal.
But when some expected work was pushed back 6 weeks, my manager agreed (bless him..he's a great guy) that this would be a good time to take two weeks to re-charge the batteries. When I return it will be very busy for the foreseeable future.
So what to do with my precious time off? I considered Europe, but that's more than I want to spend: Airfare is in the stratosphere at the moment and the Euro is up there too. Besides, in order to see the people I'd like to see, I have to do a lot of running around on trains, planes and automobiles (actually, not much in automobiles, but a lot in trains and planes). I want to do something different.
So I decided to remain on this side of the Atlantic and take a road trip. My trusted car and I will visit some places I haven't been to, see some friends I haven't seen in a while and leave a lot of unstructured time to make last-minute decisions about the next destination. It's been a really, really, long time since I've taken that kind of trip so I look forward to it. And I'll write this blog about it. Maybe others will find it interesting to read, maybe not. That doesn't matter. I will find it interesting to write it. I've never really done that. It's time for doing something new.
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