I’ve decided to put you all on half-rations for a while.   I’m going to give the blog a rest, and post only every other day this week.

There are two primary reasons for this.

1. After over 900 nearly consecutive blog entries, I think I’ve earned a vacation for a bit.
2. Let’s face it, our life is just not very interesting right now, even to me.

The past few weeks I’ve been struggling to tell you something, anything, interesting that relates to Airstream travel.   But I’m getting tired of hearing myself re-hash old themes: planning the next trip, maintenance on the Airstream, travel philosophy, budgeting, etc.   I have to face reality: right now we are just sitting here and waiting for a chance to run away.

And while we are sitting here, our lives look a lot like everyone else’s.   We brush our teeth in the morning.   We work and go to school.   We buy groceries and take out the trash.   We pay the bills and work on the house.   Except for the fact that we still live in the driveway in an Airstream, our lives are hardly distinguishable from the other people living on this street.

This will change in a week, when we have a trip to southern Arizona planned with our friend Brent and his daughter Kendal.   And in three weeks we’ll head out again, this time to Sonora with our friends David, Ariadna, and their son William.   A couple of days after that, we’ll start trekking east through NM, TX, LA, MS, and FL.   But right now, we’re parked and there just isn’t a whole lot to be said about it.

This is a good thing, really.   It’s time for a little vacation.   Since I began working from home in 1993 as a self-employed person, I have tried to take full advantage of the opportunities for vacation that self-employment can offer.   Most of the time working for yourself is rough.   As my friend Steve Bertocci used to say, “Working for yourself is hard because the boss is a bastard.”   It’s true.   Like most successful self-employed people, I work much longer and harder than I ever did when I was working for other people.

But I’ve learned that if you are willing to work hard when the job calls for it, you should be ready to vacation whenever you get the chance.   In other words, when things quiet down unexpectedly and you’ve got a dull afternoon, just leave the office.    Don’t sit around filling the hours browsing the web or playing Solitaire.   Get out and have fun, because there will come another day when you are locked in the office for 15 hours straight.

It all balances out in the end. So the signs are telling me to take a vacation this week (from the blog, but not from the day job, sadly), and enjoy it, because soon we’ll be back on the road and I’ll hopefully have more blog material than I can handle.   In the meantime, hang in there.   I’ll blog every other day this week and resume the daily blog as soon as events warrant, probably next Monday.