- travel on foot or hike some days
- meet locals, understand why they are the way they are, marvel at their life style
- amazing scenary - rolling hills, and lakes with occasional little towns
- exotic architecture that takes you back to the times they were built
- soak in the history of the place
- road trips along beautiful mountains
- interact with people that don't speak the same language that you do, get fascinated by the universality of sign language
- try local food, local cafes
- go off season so places are not crowded
- visit vista points and marvel at the beauty of this Mother Earth
- visit towns great people lived, marvel and ponder over how the exact place was and how things have changed and how would I have been had I been in that day and age
- a vacation should change a tiny part of you in some way, other than relaxing and de stressing you, help look at the big picture, drown your tiny troubles of everyday away to appreciate the life you have.
- it should be of the right length to relax you and at the same time yearn for more
- it should make you realize how mundane the stuff that consumes you on an everyday basis is and at the same time look forward to the mundaneness
- to add - a vacation is well earned
- to add - a great camera is essential to record beautiful moments for posterity
- I would love to take like 3 months off and explore like 30 countries, may be when dotter is out of the house.
The pictures have already been shared on my FB feed. Have been watching travel episodes planning our trip. Thanks to DH, hmpf, dotter is in two classes on Saturdays which means there is not much time left to do anything else. Sundays are usually wind down times preparing for the week. I am kinda bummed that weekends are so wasted where I only cook, workout and lounge around. In fact I don't feel like watching TV whatever happened to me. I picked up a physical book 'Getting more' by Stuart Diamond that came heavily recommended by my very old good boss. The three of us spent the lazy afternoon between classes and lunch sitting and reading books. I quite liked it.
