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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to take a thirty six hour vacation.

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Speaker 1: Getting away doesn't have to involve long flights, extended in

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Speaker 1: pricey hotel stays, or even taking days off work. Quick

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Speaker 1: trips are sometimes more doable than long ones and can

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Speaker 1: make life feel more memorable, even if they do take

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Speaker 1: some work. In the moment, I am writing this after

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Speaker 1: returning from a quick weekend trip to Upstate New York.

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Speaker 1: My brother lives in a rural spot that is absolutely

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Speaker 1: beautiful in fall, and so my family went to visit

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Speaker 1: him to see the leaves at their peak. My kids

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Speaker 1: still have all their fall sports. So we got in

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Speaker 1: the car at two pm on Saturday, We got there

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Speaker 1: a little before six pm, and we were back in

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Speaker 1: the car at four pm on Sunday to be home

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Speaker 1: for bedtime on Sunday night. Moving seven people anywhere is

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Speaker 1: never easy, and so there was a lot of packing

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Speaker 1: and unpacking to take this thirties something our trip. Getting

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Speaker 1: the kids in bed on time on Sunday night wasn't easy,

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Speaker 1: and it is possible that Monday morning It was a

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Speaker 1: bit bumpy, but it was fun seeing family and the

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Speaker 1: leaves were gorgeous. We hiked around a mountain lake rimmed

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Speaker 1: with red maples and yellow oaks, and we picked apples

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Speaker 1: with a view of the cliffs in the distance. From

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Speaker 1: the perspective of memory, I think it is so much

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Speaker 1: better to have the memories than not have the memories,

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Speaker 1: even if I did have to do launch on Monday

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Speaker 1: instead of over the weekend. The New York Times has

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Speaker 1: long run of feature on thirty six hours in some destination.

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Speaker 1: Usually the idea is you could go Friday and be

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Speaker 1: gone by Sunday midday. Many of these places are exotic destinations,

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Speaker 1: and I sometimes fantasize about the sort of life where

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Speaker 1: I could spend thirty six hours in Oslo or Costa Rica.

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Speaker 1: But the truth is you can spend thirty six hours

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Speaker 1: in places far closer to home. You can have the

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Speaker 1: feel of a vacation but not have to wait for

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Speaker 1: long weekends or holiday weeks to get that feeling. You

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Speaker 1: won't have to compete with the extra traffic long weekends

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Speaker 1: and holiday weeks generate, and you don't have to take

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Speaker 1: any extra days off work. So consider what is within

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Speaker 1: a three to four hour radius from your house with driving,

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Speaker 1: or if you live near a major airport, there are

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Speaker 1: probably flights that take less than two hours, which means

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Speaker 1: that you could get somewhere in less than four hours

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Speaker 1: door to door. Maybe you could stay with family and friends,

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Speaker 1: or get a reasonably cheap airbnb. If you like to

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Speaker 1: relax on Friday night and don't want to battle Friday traffic,

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Speaker 1: you can absolutely leave Saturday morning, come home Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: and pack a lot in a thirty six hour vacation

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Speaker 1: like this isn't doable every weekend, but it is probably

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Speaker 1: doable every six weeks or so in a way that

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Speaker 1: a more formal vacation probably isn't now. To be sure,

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Speaker 1: many people do like to relax on weekends, and traveling

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Speaker 1: over a normal weekend is not going to be that relaxing.

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Speaker 1: I will admit there was a lot of yelling in

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Speaker 1: the minivan and a out of complaining during the hikes.

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Speaker 1: My toddler took his time going to sleep in a

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Speaker 1: new location, which meant that I was sitting next to

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Speaker 1: a portable crib at eleven thirty pm trying to convince

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Speaker 1: him to be quiet. It certainly would have been more

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Speaker 1: relaxing to stay home. But memory is a funny thing.

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Speaker 1: I know it was a hassle to travel, but my

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Speaker 1: memories of the weekends center more on the fall color

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Speaker 1: and the kids fun at picking apples. We went to

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Speaker 1: a farm where they encouraged us to try the merchandise,

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Speaker 1: so everyone was sampling the apples and picking their favorites.

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Speaker 1: We got donuts too, so that was a win. The

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Speaker 1: weekend was going to pass one way or another, and

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Speaker 1: I rarely start the week feeling completely rusted anyway, So

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Speaker 1: in the grand scheme of things, what am I saving

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Speaker 1: my energy for? Plus I don't do this every weekend.

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Speaker 1: A short trip once a month or so still leaves

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Speaker 1: most weekends for staying home. So consider if there's maybe

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Speaker 1: a place you'd like to travel in the next month,

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Speaker 1: Pick a weekend where the calendar is fairly light, or

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Speaker 1: where it could be light afternoon on Saturday. You could

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Speaker 1: do your normal stuff from six p m. Friday to

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Speaker 1: noon Saturday and then still enjoy a getaway. Travel doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to be long to be fun. The world is

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Speaker 1: an amazing place, even corners of the world that are

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Speaker 1: just a few hours away. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. M Hey everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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