Well here’s a bit of a quandry. Early Saturday morning I’ll be making my ride up to Sugar Loaf, NY, where I’ll be spending the day, night, and next morning with a bunch of good old friends that I haven’t seen in a year. It’ll be a blast, fine and swell. That’s long been established. Highlight of the day will be me paying off an old debt. Fine and swell.
Since I wanted to take a vacation before my company’s buying show (since vacations in the month or two afterwards are basically prohibited), and since I haven’t taken a damn vacation since I started working there again, and since I have 8 days of vacation saved up, and since I already took Sunday off to recover from the long weekend of riding (6 hours each way) as I’ve done before, I figured now would be the best time to take that vacation. Sunday off would’ve killed any overtime I would possibly have worked next week anyway.
But here’s the problem: What the hell should I do during my vacation!? This is the very question that’s been keeping me from taking one for so long in the first place, because I really don’t want to burn all those vacation days only to sit on my ass at home for a week. Obviously, it needs to be a frugal vacation, but preferably without taking it to the point of a staycation.
The only thing I can think of so far is just riding the scooter out to places unknown, doing some long distance day rides. I thought about getting a tent so I wouldn’t have to ride all the way back home every day, but tents cost money, and I don’t know where I’d pitch said tent anyway other than on the side of the road (like so many motorcycle adventurers do), or possibly hanging close to the Appalachian Trail network and using those campsites. This could in addition be combined with geocaching in new areas as well, so I could get a lot of hiking in too.
Hopefully I can find a tent to borrow from someone. If not, I may have to splurge on a cheap one at Wal*Mart. Think in this heat we’ve been having I can skip the sleeping bag. All in all, though, I think this is my best bet at actually enjoying my vacation, rather than sitting here playing WoW for a week. Friday is going to be a busy, busy day, as I haven’t even done any preparations for Sugar Loaf, nonetheless any lofty weeklong activities.
So, anyone within riding distance of South Central PA that can loan me a tent? ;-D
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