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.
Speaker 2: Can go a long ways in a weekend if you'd
Speaker 2: like to see something or see someone, you might not
Speaker 2: need to take time off work. You won't stay as
Speaker 2: long as you would like, but that might still be
Speaker 2: true even if you stayed for weeks. Today's episode was
Speaker 2: inspired by a few recent trips I have taken. My
Speaker 2: family needed to drop one kid off in Cape cod
Speaker 2: for the week, and so we drove all the way
Speaker 2: up there on Saturday morning from Philadelphia, and then drove
Speaker 2: all the way home on Sunday afternoon and evening. This
Speaker 2: was a lot of driving, but despite doing about seven
Speaker 2: hours of travel both days, not including stops, we survived.
Speaker 2: If you draw a seven hour radius around your house,
Speaker 2: or think about seven hours of travel time, I'm guessing
Speaker 2: you could get to a lot of places. We could
Speaker 2: have taken a three and a half or even four
Speaker 2: hour flight. Somewhere which is long enough to get to
Speaker 2: Denver from.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia, Florida or places in Canada could all be weekend
Speaker 1: destinations by that definition. Now, I am not saying I
Speaker 1: would want to do this every weekend. But we spent
Speaker 1: a fun twenty four hours in Massachusetts, and probably twenty
Speaker 1: four hours of fun would be possible, and lots of
Speaker 1: other places as well. We have recently talked on this
Speaker 1: podcast about how lots of people want to travel more.
Speaker 1: One common obstacle is that people don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of time off work. They also feel like they have
Speaker 1: to wait for the kids to be on vacation from school.
Speaker 1: But weekends are vacations that happen every week. It might
Speaker 1: be possible to fly somewhere Friday after work and fly
Speaker 1: back Sunday, or you drive somewhere Saturday morning, enjoy a
Speaker 1: day there and drive home. Would it be better to
Speaker 1: stay longer, certainly, But the upside of a weekend trip
Speaker 1: is that you might be able to do it again
Speaker 1: before too long, whereas if you are waiting for a
Speaker 1: week long break from school and work, you might be
Speaker 1: waiting for a long time. I am a fan of
Speaker 1: trips that actually happen, so think about where you would
Speaker 1: be able to go in a weekend. My guess is
Speaker 1: that there is a lot you could see and a
Speaker 1: lot of people you could visit, even without using your PTO.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it won't be the most relaxing week end evor,
Speaker 1: but what are you saving that energy for a little
Speaker 1: weekend adventure just might shake things up in a good way.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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