I should be going on some sort of trip this weekend. After all, it is a three day weekend because of July 4th here in the US, so I should be out traveling and seeing the world. I don’t think that will be happening this year. I think this year I will do the whole July 4th thing the way most families do in this country: Grill, check. Picnic table, check. Outdoor couch, check. Beach down the road, check. This is a first for me, but I am actually spending a three day weekend at home, in my yard.
I guess there’s nothing wrong with it. It just seems a bit slow to me, but then again, time does move quite quickly these days. I think in general people don’t feel they have the time to really sit back and experience something. I notice that a lot when I travel somewhere. I never have a plan when I get to a place. I just sort of flow with whatever is going to happen that day. Sometimes I end up seeing a lot, other times I do nothing other than sit in a park and watch the world go by. I see so many others consulting their maps and guidebooks, searching their phones for things to do and restaurant reviews, and never just looking around them to see what is going on. I think that’s the key to successful travel: Observation. All the planning in the world will get you nothing if you don’t remember where you were in the first place. So, I will take that to heart this weekend. I am moving away from here in a few months, and I am going to take this time to observe everything around me. Never know what you might see if you try it.
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