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Prepare for Landing

Published on Thursday, May 14, 2009 in Auto-Pilot and Travel. 2 Comments Tags: , .

The captain has turned on seatbelt-light, so please put your tray-tables and seat-backs in their upright positions.

I know we’ve been on a road trip that hasn’t involved planes, but every time I think of the end of a vacation, I think of that analogy.

If everything went according to plan, today is the day we trek homeward. Soon, we’ll be landing in reality.

We have the rest of the week off and are planning on using it as a vacation from our vacation. We’ll have time to sort through laundry and emails and the mail our housesitter dutifully collected for us. I’m sure the kitties will be happy to see us. We’ll be sad to say goodbye to our vacation, but we’ll be glad to be back.

I can’t wait to share our adventures! By sharing them, we relive them, and that extends the vacation a little longer in my mind. And, if this vacation is like any other we’ve ever taken, it will all be over in the blink of an eye.

Unplugged

Published on Friday, May 8, 2009 in Auto-Pilot, Random Thoughts and Travel. 4 Comments Tags: , .

I love vacations.
I love Internet, Email,
And even Twitter.

Yes, that is written in Haiku format, thanks for noticing!

But, here’s the thing about the things I love. In order for me to have a true vacation, I need to be unplugged.

No Internet.
No Email.
No Twitter.

If I brought along all my cyberdevices, would I really be taking a break? I know myself enough to know that I wouldn’t be. The location and view would be different, but my mindset would be the same.  And, that’s not bad, it’s just not what I need right now.

Now, if you’re reading this, you’ll think I sound like a hypocrite. I mean, here I am! But I’m not really.

As you’re reading this, I’m probably lounging on the beach after a strenuous day of gallivanting around the countryside. By now, the thought of checking my email accounts or twitter streams are just a fleeting moment of thought as I hike to see what we can see, watch the waves, or take shadow portraits in the sand.

And, speaking of sand…I can’t imagine the mess I’d make by getting sand all over the Internet, so everything is unplugged and stored away in a safe place.

So, have a great weekend! I’ll be back to the real world soon enough.

Or am I already there?