Tomorrow we start on our next big road trip to the Florida Keys via the Carribean. It sounds circuitous, but we’re taking a seven-day cruise from Ft. Lauderdale before pushing southward to the tip of the state.
Some years we’ve taken a cruise; others we’ve just lounged in a condo at Marathon Key. This year, simply by coincidence, we doing both back-to-back. It will be interesting to see which experience we enjoy the most. Or the least.
Regardless, I’ll never have all my client work done by departure time tomorrow morning at 7 AM. I’ll be lucky to be packed. So, as is usually the case, I’m bringing my computer and my clients with me. Some people would blanche at this thought, but not me.
The thing is when we go away we leave many other commitments behind. There are the household ones: making beds, doing laundry, planning meals, visiting the supermarket. Somebody else is charged with doing all this for us on vacation and we merely show up. Then there are the medical commitments: no doctors’ appointments, no tests, no results, no co-pays. There are business commitments: meetings, unexpected crises, various problems. Your other colleagues, who believe you’re on vacation completely, need to handle them as best as possible. And finally as much as I love piano, there is no daily practice; because a piano does not travel well, it must stay behind.
So there will be ample time to relax and see sights but still work a little each day. Who knows? I might even return home completely caught up!
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