WEBVTT - Take a hobby-themed vacation

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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<v Speaker 1>tip is to take a hobby themed vacation. Rather than

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<v Speaker 1>starting with where, sometimes it's fun to start with what

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<v Speaker 1>you'll be doing and use some of your time off

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<v Speaker 1>to go deep on something you really love. So on

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<v Speaker 1>the blog Cup of Joe, a recent post described a

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<v Speaker 1>cookbook vacation dreamed up by two friends. Both of them

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<v Speaker 1>loved to cook, so they rented an airbnb and planned

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<v Speaker 1>to cook their way through some famous cookbooks. Unfortunately, the

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<v Speaker 1>pandemic derailed their plans, but I still think that this

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<v Speaker 1>is a really neat idea. People who ski, or dive

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<v Speaker 1>or golf might take hobby vacations, but many folks with

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<v Speaker 1>other sorts of hobbies don't really think about how those

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<v Speaker 1>might work in a holiday context. And yet, if we

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<v Speaker 1>love our hobbies and generally enjoy our time off, combining

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<v Speaker 1>the two might make for some really memorable experiences. So,

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<v Speaker 1>for instance, if you like to cook, you could take

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<v Speaker 1>a page from Cup of Joe and plan a vacation

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<v Speaker 1>or staycation centered around cooking. Maybe you could cook from

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<v Speaker 1>a specific cookbook or visit a location known for a

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<v Speaker 1>particular cuisine to take a cooking class. You could enroll

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<v Speaker 1>in a short course at a cooking school. You could

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<v Speaker 1>go somewhere with lots of farms and markets and really

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<v Speaker 1>use the local ingredients. Maybe you could arrange a private

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<v Speaker 1>lesson with a chef, or a visit to a kitchen

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<v Speaker 1>at a well known restaurant. String a few of these

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<v Speaker 1>ideas together and you'd really have a vacation worth remembering.

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<v Speaker 1>Or maybe you like crafting or some other creative hobby.

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<v Speaker 1>You could make a pilgrimage to a famous store in

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<v Speaker 1>another city, a well known yarn store, for instance, or

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<v Speaker 1>a stationery store you've been hearing about for years. You

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<v Speaker 1>could take a class somewhere. You could visit a museum

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<v Speaker 1>devoted to crafts, or go to a craft's related conference,

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<v Speaker 1>or visit lots of craft markets. Rent a space with

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<v Speaker 1>some fellow craft lovers and bring all your materials and

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<v Speaker 1>go to town. A photographer might visit a space with

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<v Speaker 1>natural beauty for the purpose of taking lots of great shots.

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<v Speaker 1>A book lover might enjoy visiting a bookstore in another place.

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<v Speaker 1>Plenty of people happily travel hundreds of miles to go

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<v Speaker 1>to the Strand in New York City, Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon,

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<v Speaker 1>or Anne Patchett's Parnassus in Nashville. Buy a few new

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<v Speaker 1>books at the Destination book store, find a park bench

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<v Speaker 1>or a coffee shop, and read to your heart's content.

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<v Speaker 1>Another reading themed possibility is to visit your favorite author's

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<v Speaker 1>home town and spend a weekend reading his or her

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<v Speaker 1>works and walking the streets where the author walked. I

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<v Speaker 1>have toyed with the idea of wandering around Dublin to

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<v Speaker 1>see where the various events in Ulysses happened. Or hey,

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<v Speaker 1>there's nothing like seeing a Christmas Carol performed in London

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<v Speaker 1>or seeing one of Shakespeare's plays there. When people plan vacations,

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<v Speaker 1>a common starting point is where they want to go.

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<v Speaker 1>But another approach is to start from an activity that

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<v Speaker 1>you'd like to do. Instead of focusing your time off

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<v Speaker 1>on a place, focus it on an activity. Then you

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<v Speaker 1>choose the where or the wares based on what fits best.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course, if your focus is on what, then you

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<v Speaker 1>may not even need to travel somewhere to indulge your hobby,

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<v Speaker 1>but you do want to make sure that you are

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<v Speaker 1>still in a vacation mindset. If you are taking a

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<v Speaker 1>hobby vacation, so think through this hobby staycation so you

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<v Speaker 1>maximize the good stuff and minimize any not so fun stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>What would you enjoy doing on a hobby themed vacation.

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<v Speaker 1>I would love to hear about it. You can let

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<v Speaker 1>me know at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In

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<v Speaker 1>the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's

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<v Speaker 1>to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd

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