Good Weekend, now Back to Work
Feb. 7th, 2022 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt was a good weekend. We got out both days and had fulfilling outdoors activities plus visits with friends. I've written before about the downward spiral. This weekend we didn't just avoid it but managed to achieve its opposite: spinning the flywheel of forward momentum faster and faster.
It wasn't clear that things would work out so well. The friends we visited Saturday live easily an hour away, and with their energy levels and time schedules I feel like we end up burning a whole day just to spend 3 hours visiting them. Don't get me wrong, I like seeing friends; I'd like to feel I get more for my time invested. Well, this weekend it worked out. We had a great hike at Devil's slide, the weather was awesome, and we ate outdoors together afterwards.
Sunday was another of those situations of "Will meeting friends for 2 hours blow the whole day?" The meetup was local but their schedules put it smack-dab in the middle of the day. "How can we work in going on a hike around this?" I asked Hawk. The answer was we needed to do it early enough in the morning. We got out of bed a little after 8, late by weekday standards but early relative to our recent weekend laziness, packed our hiking bags at 9:30, and were walking on the trailhead by 10:30. We had a great 5 mile hike at Rancho Cañada del Oro south of San Jose. The weather was amazing (for January). We were a little late to our lunch meet after that, but our friends didn't mind. Most of them were late, too. 🤣 We enjoyed great food and conversation together.
All in all it was a good weekend, one with more activity than we've had in... well, since our Hawaii vacation. Alas all good things come to end, weekends in particular. Now it's Monday and we're back to work.
Pictures and travelogs about the hiking trips to come soon.
Update: Hiking Devil's Slide on Saturday.
Still more to come!
It wasn't clear that things would work out so well. The friends we visited Saturday live easily an hour away, and with their energy levels and time schedules I feel like we end up burning a whole day just to spend 3 hours visiting them. Don't get me wrong, I like seeing friends; I'd like to feel I get more for my time invested. Well, this weekend it worked out. We had a great hike at Devil's slide, the weather was awesome, and we ate outdoors together afterwards.
Sunday was another of those situations of "Will meeting friends for 2 hours blow the whole day?" The meetup was local but their schedules put it smack-dab in the middle of the day. "How can we work in going on a hike around this?" I asked Hawk. The answer was we needed to do it early enough in the morning. We got out of bed a little after 8, late by weekday standards but early relative to our recent weekend laziness, packed our hiking bags at 9:30, and were walking on the trailhead by 10:30. We had a great 5 mile hike at Rancho Cañada del Oro south of San Jose. The weather was amazing (for January). We were a little late to our lunch meet after that, but our friends didn't mind. Most of them were late, too. 🤣 We enjoyed great food and conversation together.
All in all it was a good weekend, one with more activity than we've had in... well, since our Hawaii vacation. Alas all good things come to end, weekends in particular. Now it's Monday and we're back to work.
Pictures and travelogs about the hiking trips to come soon.
Update: Hiking Devil's Slide on Saturday.
Still more to come!
