It’s important for me to know that hard work produces a reward, either a slice of time spent with family and friends in a neutral location that is as close to “heaven” as you can get, or a heavenly reward that may just be as close to heaven on earth as you can get!
Something I have found to be true is:
Rewards often produce harder work, harder work produces greater rewards.
A nice long drive, a ferry trip that actually went from Canada, through the USA and then back into Canada where we docked, and then a short drive to Victoria and a few days of downtime. Now… Snow, Ice and a blizzard must show up to make it as close to heaven as possible!
Now, if my kids could all be here…parents! siblings! And maybe a few cousins and aunts and uncles!
It’s still amazing to me that many Americans fail to take advantage to all their vacation time allowed by their companies. “…Americans are terrible at taking all of their allotted vacation days. That was true again in 2016, with 54% of employees ending the year with unused time off, collectively sacrificing 662 million vacation days, according to a study the U.S. Travel Association’s Project Time.” [Source]
If you are able to save it up for an even bigger time off, then I know the sacrifice can be worth it. But when you leave time unused sitting on a table, just know this, it gets tilted into that round file 13 that means the company just made money off of you! And you will never reclaim that slice of heaven.
Recounting trips in my mind I can tell you a road trip is more preferable than an overseas trip that requires planes, airports and crowds. Give me the open road, a full tank of gas, and a promised resting place in the evening hours and I will get up at weird times in the morning and hit the road! The road is my trip, the destination is my vaccination (vacation with a better spelling), and give me a good trip partner (my bride) and I will totally enjoy the sacrifice of money, and the wise use of time!
How about you? What’s your slice of heavenly time off all about?