Be wowed by the ordinary
Perfect
vacation tip #7: Go outside your past experiences and be wowed
by the ordinary
I think we all have a
tendency to want to recreate past joys, so many of us go to the
same vacation spot over and over again. But I've found that
my second time with the same vacation often doesn't hold a candle
to the first. That's why I was so glad Mark recommended we
go to Pawleys Island instead of my family's traditional beach
haunt of Ocracoke.
Mom and I got excited
before we even approached the ocean. She had never been this far south
in her life, and I'd only seen a field of cotton once
before. "Look at the cotton!" Mom and I exclaimed as we
whizzed down the highway.
And while my favorite
event of our first vacation day was the instant we got to our
rental house and I walked out on the porch and saw the ocean for
the first time in years, Mom's fondest memory was stopping at a
gas station and walking over to a weedy margin to look at
wildflowers.
Which isn't to say there wasn't plenty of extraordinary on our
vacation too. But if you get a kick out of the common,
everything else is icing on the cake.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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