L'aura del Campo

What's a vacation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What's a vacation? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

An ideal vacation?

When I worked I mostly didn't take one. If work was scheduled on a Holy Day I had to ask for the day off. That usually meant a vacation day. It wasn't automatic. The boss could always refuse...

May all the Christians out there who get a paid Christmas day off without asking ponder that...

So.

Now I write and travel. When I am doing one or the other I rarely take a "day off".

Most people think I'm vacating (pun intended) when I travel. Rubbish... They're wrong. Traveling is lots of work on a budget like mine. It's rarely quiet, restful, relaxing...

And once home they think that because I'm old and "retired" that means I sit in my Barcalounger with a piña colada in front of my 70" screen TV and order pizza. If they only knew...

Familiar with the phrase "a vacation from my vacation"?

I "work" at home and away.

When I travel, I take a gazillion photos, stress over timetables, reservations, pinch-my-pennies. I rarely write. A vacation day when traveling is realizing that thát day I will do nothing, as in abso-f-ing nothing. Sometimes my body just quits. I've learned that it's important to listen to it. Hard to go anywhere without a body.

When I'm home, I write, I read, I visit friends. (FYI: I don't have a TV, don't eat pizza, despise pineapple unless it's fresh and don't drink alcohol.) A vacation moment may be giving myself the permission not to write, not to talk to people, to go on a walk that I desperately need to do daily but don't. Any break from my boring routines.

But, you ask what would be my ideal vacation? My ideal vacation would be an all-inclusive around-the-world educational cruise.

It would probably kill me.

Peace, Kåre
4.juni.2019

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