So, it is time to pack again, I know poor me.\u00a0 As I begin to pack I ponder what to call this trip.\u00a0 As I have pointed out before; I don\u2019t think it is a vacation, because it has to be a vacation from something.\u00a0 No work means no vacation\u2026\u00a0 I like to refer to this time as a mini retirement or an extended holiday\u2026 anyway back to the question at hand, or more accurately the question in my head.\u00a0 Even if I was working the second part of the trip to Florida was an adventure.\u00a0 I believe that a vacation should be more relaxation then effort.\u00a0 More in the way of, you go somewhere different and relaxing, you stay there for a spell and you come back all refreshed and ready to get back to the grind.\u00a0 The second part of Florida I did not stay in one place more than two days and drove about 1,000 miles\u2026\u00a0 This would be clearly in the adventure category, especially considering the backpacking portion of the trip.
\nNow, what about Paris?\u00a0 I think that it has some indicators of being a vacation (except for the work thing, let\u2019s consider this more from Marlo\u2019s perspective).\u00a0 We are flying far away and staying in the same place for a week; Vacation.\u00a0 BUT, it is in a strange new land and we have to fly and go through customs and they speak a foreign language; Adventure.\u00a0 Oh yea, the learning French thing, that did get the attention necessary to be much help at all\u2026\u00a0 I guess I need to find some motivation.\u00a0 Anyway I have to switch back to Spanish now because Mexico is our next foreign destination\u2026
\nAlso in discussing our Paris adventure (or vacation) we thought that since we were going to be there for a while, we might as well check out London.\u00a0 It really is a day trip.\u00a0 Unlike the Easter Island idea.\u00a0 We can take a train through the chunnel, and make a day of it there.\u00a0 We are even thinking about riding in the clich\u00e9 double decker bus!\u00a0\u00a0 Now it seems more like an adventure\u2026 hmmm\u2026
\nNow in May we go to Mexico.\u00a0 One would think that would be a simple vacation (assume there is some work to be vacationing from), but no.\u00a0 We are not just flying to Mexico and hanging out on the beach.\u00a0 We are doing not one, not two, but three all-inclusive resorts in the same trip\u2026\u00a0 I sense a pattern here.
\nIt is funny after my Florida adventure it felt really good to come home, to a place where I could really relax and not have to think about where I was going to stay, how to get from place to place or anything else.\u00a0 Having a wonderful woman to come home to was even better.
\nSo regardless if it is a vacation or an adventure\u2026\u00a0 someone once told me, \u201cIf you are not happy at home, you won\u2019t be happy in Paris\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Well I am happy at home and in Paris, and in Florida, and in Mexico, and in Peru, and in Chile, etc, etc, etc.
\nSo, back to packing.\u00a0 We are going to do carry-on again, because we can.\u00a0 We are leaving the 6th and returning the 12th.\u00a0 There is something about an overnight flight on the way over.\u00a0 Does that mean we gain a day on the way home???
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