Take a weekend day trip

A day-long adventure can change how you see time

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to take a weekend day trip. Yes,
this requires a little planning, but an adventure that you

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can't do on a weekday is going to make your
weekend feel more memorable and full. This episode is first
airing in mid October, and in my part of the world,
the fall leaves are just coming into their peak color.
This is one of the most beautiful times to get
out and about and see the world near me, but

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almost anywhere has something lovely within a two hour radius.
Lots of folks are still nervous about flying places or
even staying in hotels, but a day trip that's doable,
and there are reasons to do it. Memories are formed
by novel and intense experiences. The more memories we have

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of a given unit of time, the longer it seems.
So one way to make weekends feel more expansive fill
them with more memorable things. Go apple picking and try
the cider from a place an hour away. See an
art museum, go for a leaf peeping hike, and then

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get a take out dinner from a destination restaurant. If
you do these, you will definitely have something to recall
on Monday morning for that inevitable how is your weekend discussion?
Of course, a full day of adventures is hard to
plan on the fly. You are also not going to
wake up on Saturday morning feeling like organizing the day.

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You'll putter around for a while and possibly long enough
to keep some things from being a possibility. Driving ninety
minutes means getting up ready to do it, so you
need to think through your day trip ahead of time.
But that's not a bad thing. When we plan ahead,
we can anticipate our fun, and that means that a

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day trip can provide more than a day's worth of enjoyment.
So today, I think if there are cool places you'd
like to go over the weekend, you might make a
list of options within two hours of your house so
you have ideas for multiple future weekends. Try to make
these compound adventures more than one thing in a particular place,

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so you can maximize the fun. And yes, I know
that kid activities sometimes make this hard, but if you
know that you want to take a trip, you might
bring your kid to the earlier karate class option or
try to push activities to one of the weekend days,
or at least look for weekends where a day trip
is an option. When we realized that we had no

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sports on a recent September Saturday, we made sure to
use that one for our apple picking trip. It was
lots of fun and not something we could do on
a weekday. Evening, we saw a beautiful scenery, had some
great sighter, and ended the weekend with a good memory.
That's pretty good as these things go. In the meantime,

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this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
the most of our time. Hey everybody, I'd love to
hear from you. You can send me your tips, your questions,
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