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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: Short Oh to be Young and Fearless and Free Edition
Posted by Jill | 1:36 PM
Jen Clark of Little Country Lost and now of Where are Joe and Jen checked in the other day, and if you, like me, are spending entirely too much time trying to figure out what to do for vacation this year and feeling more than a little resistance at paying $1300 a head for the vacation that cost you $900 just a year ago, and more than a little resentful at having to cut 2-3 days off that trip just to keep it at least year's price, you can save your money, stay home, and just follow them around the world instead.

I never was the sort of 25-year-old who could just decide to take off and bum around Europe for a summer, or a year, or whatever. Some of it was the need to earn a living, but much of it was just plain fear of the unknown. So kudos to these two for getting up and actually doing it.

Meanwhile, here at Brilliant Central, we're still trying to decide among a few options, all of which sound less appealing than they would have if it weren't for skyrocketing fuel costs. It's one thing to walk or bike to the A&P instead of taking the car, or talk to one's boss about working flex time 2 days a week to carpool with Mr. Brilliant, or combine errands until one is exhausted and Saturday is completely shot. It's quite another to bite the bullet on it costing $600 just to get where you want to be....which is why joining the ranks of Cruising Americans out of New York (where the ship we might take, the Norwegian Spirit, decided to play Titanic and hit the pier this morning) is sounding more appealing, even if the ports aren't all that we might have wanted. Because when you start getting north of 50, vacation hassles are no longer charming, they're just a pain in the ass.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Vacation? What the heck is that? Last one of those I think we had was camping for a night in the Element.
5/25/08, 10:18 PM  
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