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.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Can go a long ways in a weekend if you'd
like to see something or see someone, 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

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inspired by a few recent trips I have taken. My
family needed to drop one kid off in Cape cod
for the week, and so we drove 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

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hours of travel both days, not including stops, we survived.
If you draw a seven hour radius around 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.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Philadelphia, Florida or places in Canada could all be weekend
destinations by that definition. Now, I 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

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podcast about how lots of people want to travel more.
One common obstacle is that people don't 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

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back Sunday, or you drive somewhere Saturday morning, enjoy a
day there and drive home. Would 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

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waiting for a long time. I am a fan of
trips that actually happen, so think about 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.

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Perhaps it won't be the most relaxing week end evor,
but what are you saving that energy for a little
weekend adventure just might shake things up 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

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listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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