Tag Archives: vacation

Vacation for 50+ weeks a year

Posted on October 3, 2015 by simpletravelourway

We jumped into the great unknown when we ended our apartment lease, gave away almost all of our possessions, put two suitcases in the trunk of our old battered car, and headed down the road. We haven’t looked back in … Continue reading →

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Summer idyll

Posted on August 26, 2015 by simpletravelourway

We spent our summer in Canada, and, by late August, too few summer days were ahead of us. Time to look back and assess this summer to better plan our next grand SUMMER VACATION! What were we looking for? First … Continue reading →

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Does this qualify as a vacation?

Posted on December 30, 2014 by simpletravelourway

So, what’s a vacation? And is this it? The dictionary defines vacation as a “a period of time that a person spends away from home, school, or business usually in order to relax or travel.” We’re now visiting family for … Continue reading →

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Pause…take a break…and start up again

Posted on December 10, 2014 by simpletravelourway

Who wants a vacation to end? We never felt our one-week vacations from years past were long enough. We tried two weeks, then moved to three. When three weeks was not enough, we planned our just-finished (wildly extravagant in time) … Continue reading →

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