The Perfect Vacation

by B. Dear

Work is difficult. I spend pretty much all day, every day working myself into exhaustion. I need a break. Many times, I would like a more time to recover and enjoy life.

The other day, while working, I was asked myself,” What would be the perfect vacation?”

After a lot of thought, I couldn’t decide on a single thing. It had been so long that I had my nose to the grindstone, that I had no idea what I would like to do. Maybe if I jotted down a few thoughts regarding what I knew I didn’t want to do, I could come up with an idea.

Well, I know I don’t want to have to do any office work. That’s the point of going on vacation. I don’t want a task list, I don’t want to improve process, I don’t want to “manage” anyone.

I need to be able to relax and unwind. No planning out anything complicated.

I am also pretty sure my ideal vacation does not involve 24-hour advertisement and doesn’t involve spending a lot of money. I definitely don’t want to eat fast food or drink coffee to keep myself going.

I don’t want to drive long distances while listening to radio I don’t like just to keep myself amused. I don’t want to keep glancing at the clock worrying about making it to my next appointment on time.

I’d also like to spend more time with my family. It seems that even when I’m home, my mind is always elsewhere.

Wow. As I started to look at my list, I realized that I had pretty much eliminated everything traditional. It doesn’t seem that there’s much that I’d like to do on vacation.

Then it hit me. I had the perfect vacation. It was something that I had not even considered since childhood.

I went to the garage and pulled out my tent, sleeping bag and marked off a weekend on the calendar.