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canyonwalker) wrote2022-08-13 09:19 pm
canyonwalker) wrote2022-08-13 09:19 pm
Revenge Travel? Yes, But Not The Revenge You Think.
There's been a lot about "revenge travel" in the media the past several months. People are traveling more now to make up for things being closed and people choosing to stay home during the depths of the Coronavirus pandemic. The trip we took to the Pacific Northwest last weekend (which I'm still writing about a week later and need probably another 5 days to catch up on) was revenge travel— but not Coronavirus revenge. This was revenge we've been waiting for longer than that!
In 2017 we took a 10-day road trip to the Pacific Northwest. Things went well, if busy, for the first two days. Then things started to go sideways. A nonsense road closure kept us from a scenic drive near Mt. Rainier. A weather closure kept us from a day of hiking around Mt. Rainier we'd hoped to do. We made alternate plans, but then minor sickness trashed those plans. Finally, just as we were starting to get things back on track the whole trip crashed, hard, when our car broke down. Five days of plans were torched.
The trip we took last weekend was basically us getting back up to Mt. Rainier & Mount St. Helens to do the stuff we were blocked from doing five years ago. ...Well, three days of the stuff we were blocked from. There's another ~2 days of sightseeing and hiking in central Washington that's still on the list. Hopefully it doesn't take another 5 years to complete our revenge!
In 2017 we took a 10-day road trip to the Pacific Northwest. Things went well, if busy, for the first two days. Then things started to go sideways. A nonsense road closure kept us from a scenic drive near Mt. Rainier. A weather closure kept us from a day of hiking around Mt. Rainier we'd hoped to do. We made alternate plans, but then minor sickness trashed those plans. Finally, just as we were starting to get things back on track the whole trip crashed, hard, when our car broke down. Five days of plans were torched.
The trip we took last weekend was basically us getting back up to Mt. Rainier & Mount St. Helens to do the stuff we were blocked from doing five years ago. ...Well, three days of the stuff we were blocked from. There's another ~2 days of sightseeing and hiking in central Washington that's still on the list. Hopefully it doesn't take another 5 years to complete our revenge!