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 to enjoy whatever is special about the places
Speaker 1: where you find yourself. There is no point getting distracted
Speaker 1: by what's not available. Reveling in what is available can
Speaker 1: make life more enjoyable. This past summer, I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time eating funnel cakes because three of my
Speaker 1: kids chose to spend their one on one mommie days
Speaker 1: with me at an amusement park. If you are at
Speaker 1: an amusement park, eating funnel cakes is just what you do,
Speaker 1: so that is what we did. We also spent Labor
Speaker 1: Day weekend in Maine. I ate lobster every day there
Speaker 1: because hey, when in Maine, when I'm home, I go
Speaker 1: weeks or months without eating lobster, so getting it fresh
Speaker 1: is a real highlight. I feel like that is a
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward approach to travel. Eat barbecue in Memphis, have
Speaker 1: traditional French food in France. If you are at a
Speaker 1: restaurant on the water, probably you should order the seafood.
Speaker 1: And yet I have been around people who do not
Speaker 1: feel this way. I was once overseas on a trip
Speaker 1: where someone in our group complained about our group's plan
Speaker 1: to eat at a restaurant serving the local cuisine, and
Speaker 1: he high tailed it to a ubiquitous fast food restaurant afterwards.
Speaker 1: Now I am a fan of that fast food restaurant too,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but it struck me as strange
Speaker 1: since he could have eaten at that restaurant every single
Speaker 1: day back home, but he was unlikely to return to
Speaker 1: that particular country anytime soon. There will always be opportunities
Speaker 1: in the future to eat at chain restaurants or to
Speaker 1: have lucky charms for breakfast. When you find yourself somewhere new,
Speaker 1: it is better to get excited about what they do
Speaker 1: have than what they don't have. That means reveling in
Speaker 1: the excellent beers you can get in Eastern Europe, for instance,
Speaker 1: And then if the breakfast they serve there isn't your favorite, well,
Speaker 1: oh well. This mindset can make exploring the world more fun,
Speaker 1: even if that is just local exploration. If you go
Speaker 1: to a brew pub with a friend, there is really
Speaker 1: no point getting upset about the limited wine list. Why
Speaker 1: on earth would you be ordering the wine. When you
Speaker 1: go to Memphis order the barbecue. There is no point
Speaker 1: lamenting that you'd rather have seafood and you are disappointed
Speaker 1: in the offerings. You can eat all sorts of seafood
Speaker 1: next time you go to a coastal destination. Of course,
Speaker 1: this is one thing with travel. It is a little
Speaker 1: harder when you feel something is missing more permanently. Maybe
Speaker 1: you have moved from the city to the suburbs and
Speaker 1: are sad that you can't pop into an art gallery
Speaker 1: on your lunch break or discover a new Ethiopian restaurant
Speaker 1: on your way to the subway. I get that, and
Speaker 1: yet we are still better off focusing on the good
Speaker 1: in where we are while making a plan to get
Speaker 1: what we're missing. Chances are you can still visit whatever
Speaker 1: spot you are missing from time to time if you've
Speaker 1: got friends there, set up regular get togethers, and be
Speaker 1: sure to do whatever it is that you're missing while
Speaker 1: you are there, and then enjoy yourself in your current home.
Speaker 1: Find the spots everyone loves. Enjoy what you can do.
Speaker 1: I am a big fan of huge suburban grocery stores
Speaker 1: where I can easily maneuver a cart down the aisle,
Speaker 1: a little pleasure I rarely experienced when we lived in
Speaker 1: New York City. I'd even go so far as to
Speaker 1: say that once you move somewhere, you should go all
Speaker 1: in on where you are. Even if you are a
Speaker 1: lifelong fan of a different football team, you can get
Speaker 1: your football fix by watching the local team play. If
Speaker 1: you live near snowy mountains, learn to ski, even if
Speaker 1: you're usual fun involves going to symphonies. If there are
Speaker 1: no symphonies near those rural snowy mountains, there is just
Speaker 1: no point worrying about it. You probably aren't going to
Speaker 1: start a symphony yourself, So get symphony tickets whenever you
Speaker 1: go to a big city and take advantage of the
Speaker 1: fun you do have wherever you are. I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear about what's special about the place where you are,
Speaker 1: so I'll know what to seek out if I visit
Speaker 1: there one day. You can tell me about it at
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime, this
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear
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