Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that you can go a long ways in
Speaker 1: a weekend if you'd like to see something or see someone,
Speaker 1: you might not need to take time off work. You
Speaker 1: won't stay as long as you would like, but that
Speaker 1: might still be true even if you stayed for weeks.
Speaker 1: Today's episode was inspired by a few recent trips I
Speaker 1: have taken. My family needed to drop one kit off
Speaker 1: in Cape cod for the week, and so we drove
Speaker 1: all the way up there on Saturday morning from Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and then drove all the way home on Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: and evening. This was a lot of driving, but despite
Speaker 1: doing about seven hours of travel both days, not including stops,
Speaker 1: we survived. If you draw a seven hour radius around
Speaker 1: your house, or think about seven hours of travel time,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you could get to a lot of places.
Speaker 1: We could have taken a three and a half or
Speaker 1: even four hour flight. Somewhere which is long enough to
Speaker 1: get to Denver from Philadelphia, Florida or places in Canada
Speaker 1: could all be weekend destinations by that definition. Now, I
Speaker 1: am not saying I would want to do this every weekend.
Speaker 1: But we spent a fun twenty four hours in Massachusetts,
Speaker 1: and probably twenty four hours of fun would be possible,
Speaker 1: and lots of other places as well. We have recently
Speaker 1: talked on this podcast about how lots of people want
Speaker 1: to travel more. One common obstacle is that people don't
Speaker 1: get a lot of time off work. They also feel
Speaker 1: like they have to wait for the kids to be
Speaker 1: on vacation from school. But weekends are vacations that happen
Speaker 1: every week. It might be possible to fly somewhere Friday
Speaker 1: after work and fly back Sunday, or you drive somewhere
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, enjoy a day there and drive home. Would
Speaker 1: it be better to stay longer, certainly, But the upside
Speaker 1: of a weekend trip is that you might be able
Speaker 1: to do it again before too long, whereas if you
Speaker 1: are waiting for a week long break from school and work,
Speaker 1: you might be waiting for a long time. I am
Speaker 1: a fan of trips that actually happen, so think about
Speaker 1: where you would be able to go in a weekend.
Speaker 1: My guess is that there is a lot you could
Speaker 1: see and a lot of people you could visit, even
Speaker 1: without using your PTO. Perhaps it won't be the most
Speaker 1: relaxing weekend ever, but what are you saving that energy
Speaker 1: for a little weekend adventure just might shake things up
Speaker 1: in a good way. In the meantime, This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've
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