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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that you.

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Speaker 2: Can go a long ways in a weekend if you'd

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Speaker 2: like to see something or see someone, you might not

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Speaker 2: need to take time off work. You won't stay as

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Speaker 2: long as you would like, but that might still be

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Speaker 2: true even if you stayed for weeks. Today's episode was

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Speaker 2: inspired by a few recent trips I have taken. My

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Speaker 2: family needed to drop one kid off in Cape cod

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Speaker 2: for the week, and so we drove all the way

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Speaker 2: up there on Saturday morning from Philadelphia, and then drove

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Speaker 2: all the way home on Sunday afternoon and evening. This

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Speaker 2: was a lot of driving, but despite doing about seven

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Speaker 2: hours of travel both days, not including stops, we survived.

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Speaker 2: If you draw a seven hour radius around your house,

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Speaker 2: or think about seven hours of travel time, I'm guessing

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Speaker 2: you could get to a lot of places. We could

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Speaker 2: have taken a three and a half or even four

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Speaker 2: hour flight. Somewhere which is long enough to get to

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Speaker 2: Denver from.

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia, Florida or places in Canada could all be weekend

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Speaker 1: destinations by that definition. Now, I am not saying I

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Speaker 1: would want to do this every weekend. But we spent

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Speaker 1: a fun twenty four hours in Massachusetts, and probably twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours of fun would be possible, and lots of

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Speaker 1: other places as well. We have recently talked on this

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Speaker 1: podcast about how lots of people want to travel more.

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Speaker 1: One common obstacle is that people don't get a lot

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Speaker 1: of time off work. They also feel like they have

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Speaker 1: to wait for the kids to be on vacation from school.

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Speaker 1: But weekends are vacations that happen every week. It might

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Speaker 1: be possible to fly somewhere Friday after work and fly

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Speaker 1: back Sunday, or you drive somewhere Saturday morning, enjoy a

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Speaker 1: day there and drive home. Would it be better to

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Speaker 1: stay longer, certainly, But the upside of a weekend trip

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Speaker 1: is that you might be able to do it again

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Speaker 1: before too long, whereas if you are waiting for a

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Speaker 1: week long break from school and work, you might be

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Speaker 1: waiting for a long time. I am a fan of

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Speaker 1: trips that actually happen, so think about where you would

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Speaker 1: be able to go in a weekend. My guess is

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Speaker 1: that there is a lot you could see and a

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Speaker 1: lot of people you could visit, even without using your PTO.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps it won't be the most relaxing week end evor,

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Speaker 1: but what are you saving that energy for a little

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Speaker 1: weekend adventure just might shake things up in a good way.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,

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Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.

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