No-Travel January
Feb. 4th, 2025 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWhile other people were experimenting with "Dry January" last month I had a different form of abstinence: No-Travel January. It wasn't planned, though. In fact it was the opposite of planned. It happened because I made no plans. Well, that and Hawk being sick for pretty much the entire month. 😖
I'm defining travel here as staying overnight somewhere. Occasionally I'll give a pass to a day-trip if it's far enough afield, like if we drive 250+ miles round-trip. The farthest from home I managed in January was driving to meet friends for dinner one evening in San Francisco. That's not quite 40 miles each way. The rest of the month I stayed within 10-15 miles of home.
Having a no-travel month is weird for me. Sure, I had a lot of them during the Coronavirus pandemic. But that's hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime ordeal. Prior to this January the last no-travel month I had was March 2024. And that was partly because Hawk and I were saving our energy for a two-week trip to New Zealand in April.
I wish I had plans like that on the books right now. Alas, we haven't planned anything big. All we've got is stretching an upcoming business trip of mine to Las Vegas into a long weekend afterward. At least that's something. It won't be a No-Travel February.
I'm defining travel here as staying overnight somewhere. Occasionally I'll give a pass to a day-trip if it's far enough afield, like if we drive 250+ miles round-trip. The farthest from home I managed in January was driving to meet friends for dinner one evening in San Francisco. That's not quite 40 miles each way. The rest of the month I stayed within 10-15 miles of home.
Having a no-travel month is weird for me. Sure, I had a lot of them during the Coronavirus pandemic. But that's hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime ordeal. Prior to this January the last no-travel month I had was March 2024. And that was partly because Hawk and I were saving our energy for a two-week trip to New Zealand in April.
I wish I had plans like that on the books right now. Alas, we haven't planned anything big. All we've got is stretching an upcoming business trip of mine to Las Vegas into a long weekend afterward. At least that's something. It won't be a No-Travel February.
