GET OUT
Ideas for traveling and other escapes.
From the book:
#59 Escape (For The Day, Weekend, Or Week)
Among the many insights that mothers, therapists, and tarot card readers like to offer is this nebulous observation: “You’re not running toward something, you’re running away from something.” They say it as if it’s a bad thing, which it’s not. In the same way that absence makes the heart grow fonder, escaping your everyday life makes you appreciate it more when you’re back—or at least accept it with a better sense of humor.
I’ve broken loose many times. In fact, I try to make a habit of it. Twice while writing this book, I left my family for a few days so I could work without distraction. I checked into an inn at the beach and never left my room, except to get coffee from the breakfast room and sandwiches from the deli down the street.
I did it for work. But I loved it for myself. Four days with nobody to talk to, argue with, bribe, browbeat, or make lunch for. No walking the dog or loading the dishwasher or checking the mail. Beyond that, when I left home, I had no idea what to expect. Everything was an unknown: how my room would look, whether the local pizza place delivered, what the afternoon cookie assortment would be. It was just great to be somewhere different—and far, far away from day-to-day life.
Escape is a state of mind, not a destination, but it can be more exotic than a couple of nights locked in a hotel room with a laptop and some Danishes. My friend Jackie, for example, decided to leave her family for a long weekend to visit her college roommate in Aspen. She booked her flight the minute her husband told her he’d be taking two business trips for a total of five weeks, leaving her alone with three children. Boy, was she out of there….”
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