Vacation

I have been thinking about vacation lately.

"Vacation is a term used in English-speaking North America to describe a lengthy time away from work or school, a trip abroad, or simply a pleasure trip away from home, such as a trip to the beach that lasts several days or longer." Wikipedia

Questions which arose


• What is work?


• What's a pleasure trip?


• Where is home?


• Where to go?

I love to plan a trip. Find out all the cheap places to stay, plan a smooth trip there and back (one of my last dream trips was tossed out just because all fights had a 40 minute change of airlines in the Munich airport. Way too stressful.), plan a budget down to the last penny, then throw away my all my notes and go.
The other questions are still rolling about.
What is work? Is it something that you get a reward for? Like traveling to Bangkok to taste the street food? That seems like a reward. And it resembles work (hours, bureaucracy, communication problems, etc).
Pleasure ... how about experiencing pleasure in work?
A trip, for this ex-hippie, is not necessarily pleasurable, anyway. Nasty bathrooms, nasty border guards, ugly police, torrential rains that slide the truck over precipices. Maybe vacation= work = vacation.
Home has been "where the backpack is" has been my motto in the past. Now "all is home" is closer to the personal truth, so going away from home is not an option anymore. Maybe its all vacation.

Regardless of the philosophy, it narrows down to where to go.Stay tuned for the cities, the schools, the airlines. Stay tuned for waverings and leanings and inclinations. Lots of helpful links for women traveling, too.