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Several times throughout the years, I\u2019ll take vacation time and go somewhere and do things.\u00a0 Despite the fact that I\u2019m generally accomplishing things that I want to do on my vacation time, I don\u2019t really feel like they\u2019re really vacations in the sense that I\u2019m completely relaxed and at a general state of ease and comfort.<\/span><\/p>\n When I go to a convention, there\u2019s the agitation of constantly being in lines and being crammed with thousands of people at any given time; waits, more waits, lines and waiting in lines, the tedious procedure of trying to find a place to sit and eat lunch or dinner.\u00a0 When I go on ballpark trips, they\u2019re usually not spent very long in any one place, and in order to maximize how much time gotten at each park, and there\u2019s a lot of time spent driving around in cars trying to get from point A to B to C to D and then back to A sometimes.\u00a0 And then there are the unfortunate instances of having to use vacation time to go deal with family bullshit, where I feel like I need a vacation after each and every single day dealing with my parents\u2019 separation.<\/span><\/p>\n And no matter where in the United States you go, there\u2019s always a long line at Starbucks when all I really want is my morning cup of coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, aside from the family bullshit, I enjoy going on trips to go to conventions, baseball road trips, out-of-town weddings and other time-off-work excursions.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t trade any of those things in for the world, but the fact of the matter is that more often than not, none of those things are truly restful, not-a-care-in-the-world, zero-worry, genuine vacations.<\/span><\/p>\n So I kind of want to go on an actual vacation, sometime.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The last genuine vacation I can say I was on was last year, when I went to Mexico with my friends from Canada.\u00a0 That was a vacation in the truest sense, because I was pretty disconnected from the outside world for a week; it was almost forced, because I was in another country outright, and I didn\u2019t get any data down in Cancun.<\/span><\/p>\n But the thing is that I was almost in culture shock by being on vacation.\u00a0 It had nothing to do with the fact that I was in another country and people speaking English were much more sparse than it is in my everyday life in Atlanta, but more the fact that I had\u00a0nothing to do<\/strong>, and didn\u2019t really know what to do with myself.\u00a0 Eventually I adapted, and then I realized just how amazing an actual vacation was.<\/span><\/p>\n I slept until my body simply didn\u2019t want to sleep anymore.\u00a0 I actually felt like jogging in the morning partially because it was something constructive, but also to make a feeble attempt to counteract all the rich food I\u2019d been pigging out on, but it was nice to simply jog on foreign paths and fresh air.\u00a0 And then I would go pig out on rich food before spending the rest of the day soaking in the pool or beach, while reading campy books and drinking bloody marys.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is that I eventually found myself completely capable of relaxation, and I was almost completely devoid of all stress, anxiety and worry.\u00a0 I say almost, only because I was trying to spin some game with a cute girl I met before getting environmentally cockblocked by Mother Nature when a massive monsoon wiped out the only night I would\u2019ve had a chance, and I was miffed about it for a few hours the following day after she had departed.\u00a0 But otherwise, I was sleeping and resting like a champ, eating rich and unhealthy food and not having to worry about any dishes or cleaning, and I was spending all of my leisurely time relaxing in pools or oceans while shooting the shit with good people while getting tanked on free booze.<\/span><\/p>\n And the best part?\u00a0 No fucking lines or waits anywhere.\u00a0 Especially for coffee.\u00a0 If I wanted good, South American coffee, all I had to do was saunter down to the lobby, sit at a table, and the attentive service staff would bring me cappuccinos until my bladder erupted.<\/span><\/p>\n Man, I don\u2019t just want another vacation, but I want to go to a Latin American resort again.\u00a0 I want this experience again, and I want to be able to pick up and throw coconuts at any given time again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several times throughout the years, I\u2019ll take vacation time and go somewhere and do things.\u00a0 Despite the fact that I\u2019m generally accomplishing things that I want to do on my vacation time, I don\u2019t really feel like they\u2019re really vacations in the sense that I\u2019m completely relaxed and at a general state of ease and … Continue reading I want a real vacation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,15,65,166],"class_list":["post-37405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-og","tag-travel","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37407,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37405\/revisions\/37407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}