Traveling After 7 Weeks
Jan. 18th, 2026 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerSeven weeks ago I lamented I had no travel planned. For the first time in... I don't know how long... I had nothing booked. There were no reservations on any of my radar screens. I knew I'd have a business trip for training in February, 10 weeks out, but it was too soon to book it. Well, the February trip has been booked for several weeks now, and there's an even sooner trip that popped up as of ten days ago. I'm going to Phoenix tomorrow.
Tomorrow's trip will end my travel drought at 7 weeks. That's not the longest time I've gone without travel. I mean, the Covid lockdown had me home for months... though that's (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime anomaly. But what a dry 7 weeks it has been. I have not been more than about a 30 minute drive from home in that time. And as that period includes the winter holidays, that's quite a drought.
Tomorrow's trip is not all smiles and roses. It's a work trip, so there's that. And I'm traveling for work on what's technically a day off, the MLK Day holiday. I'll find a way to make up for that. My boss is eminently reasonable so I'm not worried about it.
Tomorrow's trip will end my travel drought at 7 weeks. That's not the longest time I've gone without travel. I mean, the Covid lockdown had me home for months... though that's (hopefully) a once-in-a-lifetime anomaly. But what a dry 7 weeks it has been. I have not been more than about a 30 minute drive from home in that time. And as that period includes the winter holidays, that's quite a drought.
Tomorrow's trip is not all smiles and roses. It's a work trip, so there's that. And I'm traveling for work on what's technically a day off, the MLK Day holiday. I'll find a way to make up for that. My boss is eminently reasonable so I'm not worried about it.
