1
00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:09,720
Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

2
00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:16,479
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

3
00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:22,160
Speaker 1: tip is to take a hobby themed vacation. Rather than

4
00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:26,880
Speaker 1: starting with where, sometimes it's fun to start with what

5
00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,600
Speaker 1: you'll be doing and use some of your time off

6
00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:36,680
Speaker 1: to go deep on something you really love. So on

7
00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:40,680
Speaker 1: the blog Cup of Joe, a recent post described a

8
00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:45,400
Speaker 1: cookbook vacation dreamed up by two friends. Both of them

9
00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,680
Speaker 1: loved to cook, so they rented an airbnb and planned

10
00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,200
Speaker 1: to cook their way through some famous cookbooks. Unfortunately, the

11
00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,360
Speaker 1: pandemic derailed their plans, but I still think that this

12
00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:03,440
Speaker 1: is a really neat idea. People whose ski or dive

13
00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,399
Speaker 1: or golf might take hobby vacations, but many folks with

14
00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,520
Speaker 1: other sorts of hobbies don't really think about how those

15
00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,400
Speaker 1: might work in a holiday context. And yet, if we

16
00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:20,320
Speaker 1: love our hobbies and generally enjoy our time off, combining

17
00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:26,200
Speaker 1: the two might make for some really memorable experiences. So,

18
00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,680
Speaker 1: for instance, if you like to cook, you could take

19
00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,000
Speaker 1: a page from Cup of Joe and plan a vacation

20
00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,240
Speaker 1: or staycation centered around cooking. Maybe you could cook from

21
00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,080
Speaker 1: a specific cookbook or visit a location known for a

22
00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,640
Speaker 1: particular cuisine to take a cooking class. You could enroll

23
00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,960
Speaker 1: in a short course at a cooking school. You could

24
00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,520
Speaker 1: go somewhere with lots of farms and markets and really

25
00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,720
Speaker 1: use the local ingredients. Maybe you could arrange a private

26
00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,000
Speaker 1: lesson with a chef, or a visit to a kitchen

27
00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,520
Speaker 1: at a well known restaurant. String a few of these

28
00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,600
Speaker 1: ideas together and you'd really have a vacation worth remembering.

29
00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,200
Speaker 1: Or maybe you like crafting or some other creative hobby.

30
00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,000
Speaker 1: You could make a pilgrimage to a famous store in

31
00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,720
Speaker 1: another city, a well known yarn store, for instance, or

32
00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:24,800
Speaker 1: a stationery store you've been hearing about for years. You

33
00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,280
Speaker 1: could take a class somewhere. You could visit a museum

34
00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,840
Speaker 1: devoted to crafts, or go to a craft's related conference,

35
00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,760
Speaker 1: or visit lots of craft markets. Rent a space with

36
00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,640
Speaker 1: some fellow craft lovers and bring all your materials and

37
00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,760
Speaker 1: go to town. A photographer might visit a space with

38
00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,840
Speaker 1: natural beauty for the purpose of taking lots of great shots.

39
00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,440
Speaker 1: A book lover might enjoy visiting a bookstore in another place.

40
00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,160
Speaker 1: Plenty of people happily travel hundreds of miles to go

41
00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,840
Speaker 1: to the Strand in New York City, Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon,

42
00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,760
Speaker 1: or Anne Patchett's Parnassus in Nashville. Buy a few new

43
00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,400
Speaker 1: books at the Destination book store, find a park bench

44
00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,960
Speaker 1: or a coffee shop, and read to your heart's content.

45
00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,520
Speaker 1: Another reading themed possibility is to visit your favorite author's

46
00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,080
Speaker 1: home town and spend a weekend reading his or her

47
00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,720
Speaker 1: works and walking the streets where the author walked. I

48
00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,280
Speaker 1: have toyed with the idea of wandering around Dublin to

49
00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,160
Speaker 1: see where the various events in Ulysses happened. Or hey,

50
00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,960
Speaker 1: there's nothing like seeing a Christmas Carol performed in London

51
00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:44,800
Speaker 1: or seeing one of Shakespeare's plays there. When people plan vacations,

52
00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:48,320
Speaker 1: a common starting point is where they want to go.

53
00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,200
Speaker 1: But another approach is to start from an activity that

54
00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,160
Speaker 1: you'd like to do. Instead of focusing your time off

55
00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,720
Speaker 1: on a place, focus it on an activity. Then you

56
00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,400
Speaker 1: choose the where or the wares based on what fits best.

57
00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,200
Speaker 1: Of course, if your focus is on what, then you

58
00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,400
Speaker 1: may not even need to travel somewhere to indulge your hobby,

59
00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,320
Speaker 1: but you do want to make sure that you are

60
00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,400
Speaker 1: still in a vacation mindset. If you are taking a

61
00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:24,080
Speaker 1: hobby vacation, so think through this hobby staycation so you

62
00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,880
Speaker 1: maximize the good stuff and minimize any not so fun stuff.

63
00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,479
Speaker 1: What would you enjoy doing on a hobby themed vacation.

64
00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,039
Speaker 1: I would love to hear about it. You can let

65
00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:43,200
Speaker 1: me know at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In

66
00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:48,719
Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's

67
00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:58,440
Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd

68
00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,719
Speaker 1: love to hear from you. Send me your tips, your questions,

69
00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,560
Speaker 1: or anything else. Just connect with me on Twitter, Facebook

70
00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,479
Speaker 1: and Instagram at Before Breakfast Pod. That's b E the

71
00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,200
Speaker 1: number four then Breakfast pod. You can also shoot me

72
00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:19,560
Speaker 1: an email at Before Breakfast Podcasts at iHeartMedia dot com.

73
00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,120
Speaker 1: That Before Breakfast is spelled out with all the letters.

74
00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,839
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Should I look forward to staying in touch.

75
00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,719
Speaker 1: Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts

76
00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,640
Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

77
00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:45,040
Speaker 1: you listen to your favorite shows.