After two years of hubby living
in New Mexico, the daughter’s wedding, teaching all year, remodeling my
daughter’s condominium, remodeling three bedrooms at our home, gardening,
chasing two dogs and two granddogs, running a business and a bridal shower, two
parties and countless dishes, cleaning, and mowing, the hubby and I are taking
a vacation without children, dogs, friends or relatives. Just him and I….
weird.
Originally, we had a fancy
vacation planned but fires in New Mexico that he had to evacuate from fairly
quickly ate up some of the miles we were planning on using, but I am a simple
girl. I needed beach, sand and ocean. Nothing fancy, nothing too grand. Just a
beach.
Everyone needs a vacation means a
time to relax and re-charge, it can be at home but I know how I operate. If I stay home,
I catch up on laundry, cleaning, etc. So I have to leave, read be pried,
from home. The dogs always need something, the yard could use a couple of hours
of work, the house needs a quick once over, ironing needs to be caught up. So I
need to leave the house!!!
Which brings me to the point of
this post, I needed to plan a simple vacation for the two of us.
First, I looked for the closest
beach to us. Hubby has to travel home from New Mexico… so we are driving to the
closest beach. Guess which beach is closest?
Charleston!!!
What a great town? Perfect. Last time I was in Charleston, I had these two in tow!!
Next task, what to do? I mean
serious beach time, but what else.
Well, quick research of my
Southern Livings, the internet and a couple of friend requests brings us some
great restaurant recommendations, a couple of “must dos” and yes, I want to do
some dorky tourist things. A carriage ride through Charleston…
Besides, I do
not have kids telling me how silly all this is… A grown-up vacation!!!
Now, my typical vacation mode;
·
List of clothes and toiletries
needed
·
Itinerary including maps and addresses
·
Grocery list and cooler items
needed.
·
Kindle packed
·
Beach items checked and ready
·
Camera with multiple lens packed
·
Special trip items:
o Book
of South Carolina birds
o Binoculars
o Civil
War Book of South Carolina
o History
of Charleston
·
List of numbers for the kids
staying at the house
·
Food in the fridge for them to
eat
·
Plenty of dog food while we are
gone.
Vacation planning may seem
counter intuitive when you want to relax but let me tell you, I now can relax
knowing that I have done everything to ensure we have the best time.
How do you vacation? Are you a
wing-it type of person? Or are you a planner, like me?
I am a planner! I have every detail listed in my "vacation" binder, with additional options for each day. It eliminates any vacation stress. That being said, I love to ditch the plan and do whatever I feel like when I am on vacation.
ReplyDeleteCharleston looks amazing. Good for you!
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We plan! Charleston is one of my favorite vacation spots... if you want any ideas, restaurants, attractions, etc., I would be glad to help!
ReplyDeleteI'm a planner but I also like to wing it a bit too...I look at everything to have ideas...then we wing it....
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