Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to take a weekend day trip. Yes,
Speaker 1: this requires a little planning, but an adventure that you
Speaker 1: can't do on a weekday is going to make your
Speaker 1: weekend feel more memorable and full. This episode is first
Speaker 1: airing in mid October, and in my part of the world,
Speaker 1: the fall leaves are just coming into their peak color.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most beautiful times to get
Speaker 1: out and about and see the world near me, but
Speaker 1: almost anywhere has something lovely within a two hour radius.
Speaker 1: Lots of folks are still nervous about flying places or
Speaker 1: even staying in hotels, but a day trip that's doable,
Speaker 1: and there are reasons to do it. Memories are formed
Speaker 1: by novel and intense experiences. The more memories we have
Speaker 1: of a given unit of time, the longer it seems.
Speaker 1: So one way to make weekends feel more expansive fill
Speaker 1: them with more memorable things. Go apple picking and try
Speaker 1: the cider from a place an hour away. See an
Speaker 1: art museum, go for a leaf peeping hike, and then
Speaker 1: get a take out dinner from a destination restaurant. If
Speaker 1: you do these, you will definitely have something to recall
Speaker 1: on Monday morning for that inevitable how is your weekend discussion?
Speaker 1: Of course, a full day of adventures is hard to
Speaker 1: plan on the fly. You are also not going to
Speaker 1: wake up on Saturday morning feeling like organizing the day.
Speaker 1: You'll putter around for a while and possibly long enough
Speaker 1: to keep some things from being a possibility. Driving ninety
Speaker 1: minutes means getting up ready to do it, so you
Speaker 1: need to think through your day trip ahead of time.
Speaker 1: But that's not a bad thing. When we plan ahead,
Speaker 1: we can anticipate our fun, and that means that a
Speaker 1: day trip can provide more than a day's worth of enjoyment.
Speaker 1: So today, I think if there are cool places you'd
Speaker 1: like to go over the weekend, you might make a
Speaker 1: list of options within two hours of your house so
Speaker 1: you have ideas for multiple future weekends. Try to make
Speaker 1: these compound adventures more than one thing in a particular place,
Speaker 1: so you can maximize the fun. And yes, I know
Speaker 1: that kid activities sometimes make this hard, but if you
Speaker 1: know that you want to take a trip, you might
Speaker 1: bring your kid to the earlier karate class option or
Speaker 1: try to push activities to one of the weekend days,
Speaker 1: or at least look for weekends where a day trip
Speaker 1: is an option. When we realized that we had no
Speaker 1: sports on a recent September Saturday, we made sure to
Speaker 1: use that one for our apple picking trip. It was
Speaker 1: lots of fun and not something we could do on
Speaker 1: a weekday. Evening, we saw a beautiful scenery, had some
Speaker 1: great sighter, and ended the weekend with a good memory.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good as these things go. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to
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