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serynVacation plans are proceeding according to prior history. I'm overwhelmed by all the choices and dismayed by all the work involved. So now that I've chosen a hotel, discovered that non-stop flights exist, I have realized it's impossible to say "Any dates, 5 or 6 nights, with THAT hotel, and THAT flight; search all of September and October this year." Then I realized that I'd be paying a minimum of $750/night and that was before food and before all the excursions I wanted. Adding in the helicopter tour, the sunrise bike tour, and a boat/snorkel tour.... we'd be looking at at least $5500 with food.
I won't like it that much. I looked into options that would economize and realized fairly quickly that I didn't want to go if I felt like I should bring instant oatmeal packets and energy bars so I could "afford" the trip. Obviously there are places which could be scaled back without going to the extreme, but I'm the only one who really wants to go at all, we really should just pick somewhere else. My SO doesn't like to be outside very much. He said, "If you want to go to Hawaii, that's fine, pick somewhere that has good wifi so I can hang out in the room." You can see why I think we shouldn't spend all that money to go to Hawaii. I'd phone a friend, only I don't have any real life friends who would want to and could pay their own way. Not to mention my belief that couples who vacation alone should probably stay home and save the money for their impending split.
Now I'm looking at things we can drive to. But we've been just about everywhere in California at least once. Sometimes we didn't go to the big name attraction... Like we were in San Luis Obispo, which is the nearest decent size place to Hearst Castle, but we didn't go on the tour. We've been to San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Francisco, Napa Valley and the coast there, Mendocino, Yosemite, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta. We've driven out of California into Oregon and Nevada a couple times each. I'm not saying that there isn't more to see around here, but that once you've been everywhere once, it's hard to choose to go back when there wasn't anything especially amazing the first time.
We like it here and around here. We know where everything is. But home itself always appears to be needing something. If I sit still long enough the vacuum cleaner seems to get highlighted. When I open the refrigerator to find there's nothing ready to eat but I know my SO won't want to go out after eating lunch with his coworkers. No one else ever changes my sheets. We need to go somewhere for it to feel like a holiday.
I'm not saying we can't spend any money, just that I can't justify the expense of going to Hawaii when I've chosen aspects that make it not a good value.
This always happens. After a couple weeks of effort and looking at plans and logistics. I'm mentally exhausted and don't want to go anywhere.
I won't like it that much. I looked into options that would economize and realized fairly quickly that I didn't want to go if I felt like I should bring instant oatmeal packets and energy bars so I could "afford" the trip. Obviously there are places which could be scaled back without going to the extreme, but I'm the only one who really wants to go at all, we really should just pick somewhere else. My SO doesn't like to be outside very much. He said, "If you want to go to Hawaii, that's fine, pick somewhere that has good wifi so I can hang out in the room." You can see why I think we shouldn't spend all that money to go to Hawaii. I'd phone a friend, only I don't have any real life friends who would want to and could pay their own way. Not to mention my belief that couples who vacation alone should probably stay home and save the money for their impending split.
Now I'm looking at things we can drive to. But we've been just about everywhere in California at least once. Sometimes we didn't go to the big name attraction... Like we were in San Luis Obispo, which is the nearest decent size place to Hearst Castle, but we didn't go on the tour. We've been to San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Francisco, Napa Valley and the coast there, Mendocino, Yosemite, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta. We've driven out of California into Oregon and Nevada a couple times each. I'm not saying that there isn't more to see around here, but that once you've been everywhere once, it's hard to choose to go back when there wasn't anything especially amazing the first time.
We like it here and around here. We know where everything is. But home itself always appears to be needing something. If I sit still long enough the vacuum cleaner seems to get highlighted. When I open the refrigerator to find there's nothing ready to eat but I know my SO won't want to go out after eating lunch with his coworkers. No one else ever changes my sheets. We need to go somewhere for it to feel like a holiday.
I'm not saying we can't spend any money, just that I can't justify the expense of going to Hawaii when I've chosen aspects that make it not a good value.
This always happens. After a couple weeks of effort and looking at plans and logistics. I'm mentally exhausted and don't want to go anywhere.
