{"id":1263,"date":"2008-03-09T23:29:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T05:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2008-03-09T23:29:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T05:29:06","slug":"siesta-for-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Siesta for the blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to put you all on half-rations for a while. \u00a0 I’m going to give the blog a rest, and post only every other day this week.<\/p>\n

There are two primary reasons for this.<\/p>\n

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

    The past few weeks I’ve been struggling to tell you something, anything<\/em>, interesting that relates to Airstream travel. \u00a0 But I’m getting tired of hearing myself re-hash old themes: planning the next trip, maintenance on the Airstream, travel philosophy, budgeting, etc. \u00a0 I have to face reality: right now we are just sitting here and waiting for a chance to run away.<\/p>\n

    And while we are sitting here, our lives look a lot like everyone else’s. \u00a0 We brush our teeth in the morning. \u00a0 We work and go to school. \u00a0 We buy groceries and take out the trash. \u00a0 We pay the bills and work on the house. \u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

    This will change in a week, when we have a trip to southern Arizona planned with our friend Brent and his daughter Kendal. \u00a0 And in three weeks we’ll head out again, this time to Sonora with our friends David, Ariadna, and their son William. \u00a0 A couple of days after that, we’ll start trekking east through NM, TX, LA, MS, and FL. \u00a0 But right now, we’re parked and there just isn’t a whole lot to be said about it.<\/p>\n

    This is a good thing, really. \u00a0 It’s time for a little vacation. \u00a0 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. \u00a0 Most of the time working for yourself is rough. \u00a0 As my friend Steve Bertocci used to say, “Working for yourself is hard because the boss is a bastard.” \u00a0 It’s true. \u00a0 Like most successful self-employed people, I work much longer and harder than I ever did when I was working for other people.<\/p>\n

    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. \u00a0 In other words, when things quiet down unexpectedly and you’ve got a dull afternoon, just leave the office. \u00a0 \u00a0Don’t sit around filling the hours browsing the web or playing Solitaire. \u00a0 Get out and have fun, because there will come another day when you are locked in the office for 15 hours straight.<\/p>\n

    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. \u00a0 In the meantime, hang in there. \u00a0 I’ll blog every other day this week and resume the daily blog as soon as events warrant, probably next Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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