After 13 years of household journey, I lastly found out the important thing to having enjoyable (or at the least the right way to put it into phrases): Count on some tough occasions.
The purpose of journey is that the highs might be excessive. However, particularly with household journey, the lows can be hilariously low, proper? Just a few issues will at all times go incorrect: your flight will likely be delayed. Otherwise you’ll get a nasty headache. Or the climate will likely be wet. Or your children will get up at 2 a.m. Otherwise you’ll discover a hair in your salad. And, actually, that’s to be anticipated, proper? Journey remains to be common life, and tough stuff isn’t a catastrophe, it’s simply regular.
Working example: This previous weekend, the boys and I drove as much as Connecticut to go to previous pals. We ate hen sandwiches and performed ping pong. We floated on our backs within the pool. We watched Alexander and the Horrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Dangerous Day. We drank chilly white wine from these small Italian glasses. A dozen completely different occasions, I assumed to myself, “That is what life is all about.”
However, on the identical time, not the whole lot was idyllic: the boys argued throughout the three-hour drive. I obtained misophonic and informed them to be quiet or I’d turn-this-car-around-so-help-me-god. The Airbnb had spiders within the toilet. We misplaced our basketball in some thorny bushes. The drive dwelling had a number of visitors.
Backside line: Components of the journey had been annoying, components had been epic. Each issues might be true!
Listed here are a number of journey snapshots by means of the years…
Yawning by means of the fantastic Laguna Gloria in Austin.
Getting a “Plus 4” card throughout an Uno sport in San Diego.
Not feeling the seashore in San Francisco.
Uninterested in strolling in Italy.
Hangry in England.
Too scorching in Florida.
Heading onto a 10-hour flight.
The opposite day, my pal Andy recapped a household journey with a sentence that might describe all household journey: “It was dangerous after which it was nice.”
Plus, two legendary posts that at all times make me snicker:
* Trip or Journey? A Useful Information for Dad and mom
* Mother Spends Seashore Trip Assuming All Family Duties In Nearer Proximity To Ocean
What about you? What hilariously bummery issues have occurred on journeys? Have you ever ever had a visit that simply all-out sucked? That may occur, too! We’re aiming for wholeness, in any case.
P.S. An ode to dangerous household holidays, and the weirdest greatest a part of journeys.
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