I still feel so odd not heading out of town this holiday weekend 🇺🇸

The thing is I have a feeling that I will have to work this weekend and since the pandemic, I don’t really like to mix camping with remote work. It was fun at the time, but camping and remote work is still work. You have to put in the hours, take the calls, do the research and send the emails and blasts. It just kind of breaks things up.

These days when I’m vacationing I really try to be fully off the grid, no cell service. I feel like otherwise I’ll be just playing with my phone, watching YouTube and social media, wasting time in my hammock, not reading, thinking and writing. Instead of fully relaxing I’m just doing what I ordinarily do at home. So it’s kind of pointless at one level.

Plus Memorial Day Weekend kind of sucks. It’s still cold and often rainy, the black flies are terrible. Campsites are often crowded, the best ones taken early. I got to keep the music down, be careful what I’m burning and be very careful if I’m doing target shooting. Things are often soggy and muddy.

And to boot, I think things will be a lot quieter at work in a few weeks and I can take off any weekend and create the long weekend of my choosing.