SEVENTH Stay-Home Weekend (Mostly)

[canyonwalker]

This weekend has been another (mostly) stay-home weekend. Yes, another— which makes it now seven weekends in a row that we haven't gone anywhere out of town! That's a lot of weekends to spend without setting foot in an airport or at least driving hundreds of miles in a car.

While we didn't go far we didn't literally stay in our home. Today (Sunday) we got out for a hike like last weekend. This time we visited the Sunnyvale Baylands Park just a few miles away. It was not the ideal time of year to visit that park. Reasons will become clear when I post a separate blog about it with pictures. But it was good to get out and about, and walking along the levees and sloughs was a nice change of scenery.

Outside of today's hike it was mostly a taking-it-easy weekend for us. Friday night was D&D, which I enjoyed. Saturday was our real sit-like-slugs day. I don't even remember what we did aside from go out for lunch, do a few light shopping errands, play a few rounds of a favorite boardgame, and otherwise loaf around the house.

I remain surprised at how much I've enjoyed this streak of 7 weekends at home. Seven weeks ago I expected I'd be wanting to travel again in 2-3 weeks, maybe 4, tops. What changed? It's all because I've been busy with work. I've had a few work trips in that period, and each week I've been pretty busy with work. I've been so go-go-go at work it's felt good to slow down and relax on weekends.

Well, the streak ends here, at seven. Next weekend will be a travel weekend. We're heading out to spend Thanksgiving week visiting relatives and friends on the east coast. We're on a red-eye Friday night with plans to see people and do things all day Saturday and Sunday. That'll be a change of pace from these weekends of taking it easy!

Comments

[sorcyress]

Ah, have fun over here! I am (for maybe the first time ever?) not traveling anywhere for Thanksgiving and kinda excited about it --all the same reasons you've been enjoying your string of "not going anywhere" I suspect.

~Sor

[canyonwalker]

Traveling over the Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year holidays is one of those damned if you do, damned if you don't situations. On the one hand, travel over the holidays can feel frantic with so many other people traveling at the same time. Being stuck in crowds and long lines to go places is rarely fun. On the other hand, staying home can feel lonely when it seems like almost everyone you know locally is away.