Theme Thursday - Vacation

What are your vacations like? I was posed this question a few years ago. Most of my vacations as an adult have always been planned well in advance. Since most of them revolved around golf, it was a lot of research of locations, hotels, flights, restaurants, everything. Similar to the workplace, vacations were structured and scheduled. What happens if you find something or someplace you didn't know about? A good question, but one for which I had an answer. I would schedule a free day to do whatever I wanted, try a recommendation from the locals, or do nothing. Yes, even my spontaneous time was planned.

Lately though, vacations have evolved into something different. Most have been trips home to see just mom and just brother, so they are very loose and unplanned. I'd rather spend time with them doing whatever they want to do than make a bunch of plans and have every second scheduled. Vacations not involving the family generally revolve an event or events like hockey or ball games or concerts. Although those have some structure to them, the rest of the time not involving the event isn't planned anymore. Even though I lived in New England for nearly 10 years, I spent two whole days in March walking around Boston seeing and doing things I never found the time for when it was so close.

I guess over the years I've gotten more adventurous with my free time. Not adventurous like cliff diving or hang gliding, but more adventurous in being less planned and more off the cuff. In the past year I've even taken off for a weekend on less than a week's notice. In my past I would never have been that spontaneous. I'm not really sure why things have changed, they just have. What my vacations will look like ten years from now I have no idea, but they probably won't be like they are today. It should be an interesting ride... or walk... or flight... or train... or who knows.