Second Cup: You can go a long way in a weekend

Traveling and visiting might not require days off work

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is that you can go a long ways in
a weekend if you'd like to see something or see someone,

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you might not need to take time off work. You
won't stay as long as you would like, but that
might still be true even if you stayed for weeks.
Today's episode was inspired by a few recent trips I
have taken. My family needed to drop one kit off
in Cape cod for the week, and so we drove

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all the way up there on Saturday morning from Philadelphia,
and then drove all the way home on Sunday afternoon
and evening. This was a lot of driving, but despite
doing about seven hours of travel both days, not including stops,
we survived. If you draw a seven hour radius around

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your house, or think about seven hours of travel time,
I'm guessing you could get to a lot of places.
We could have taken a three and a half or
even four hour flight. Somewhere which is long enough to
get to Denver from Philadelphia, Florida or places in Canada
could all be weekend destinations by that definition. Now, I

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am not saying I would want to do this every weekend.
But we spent a fun twenty four hours in Massachusetts,
and probably twenty four hours of fun would be possible,
and lots of other places as well. We have recently
talked on this podcast about how lots of people want
to travel more. One common obstacle is that people don't

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get a lot of time off work. They also feel
like they have to wait for the kids to be
on vacation from school. But weekends are vacations that happen
every week. It might be possible to fly somewhere Friday
after work and fly back Sunday, or you drive somewhere
Saturday morning, enjoy a day there and drive home. Would

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it be better to stay longer, certainly, But the upside
of a weekend trip is that you might be able
to do it again before too long, whereas if you
are waiting for a week long break from school and work,
you might be waiting for a long time. I am
a fan of trips that actually happen, so think about

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where you would be able to go in a weekend.
My guess is that there is a lot you could
see and a lot of people you could visit, even
without using your PTO. Perhaps it won't be the most
relaxing weekend ever, but what are you saving that energy
for a little weekend adventure just might shake things up

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in a good way. In the meantime, This is Laura.
Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've

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got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at
Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast is a
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