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Need is a strong word, but really want\u2026as in want to badly my daughter\u2019s hair is falling out and my eyes well up with tears when I think about being anywhere that involves a painful trip to an airport where I will gladly put my bag in the overhead and slam my hip bone into every person on my way back to my seat.
\nYes, that kind of vacation.
\nThe kind where I am not taking pictures for someone else.\u00a0 The kind where I don\u2019t even bring a camera because no matter how many pictures I took, it couldn\u2019t capture the beauty of it, the enormity of it, the FEEL of it.<\/p>\n
In the past I use to pull up \u2018vacation deals\u2019 and just pretend I was going.\u00a0 Sometimes the pretending would go so far as buying something for the trip.\u00a0 By the way, I will SOMEDAY find a place I can wear the sequined top with a peacock on the front. Those damn Vegas deals get me every time. I then realize that if I am going to Vegas I am going to come home broke as fuck and the trip in my head was much better than the actual trip I could have taken.
\nThat does seem to be the end result. I take a mind vacation.\u00a0 Once I went to Greece and lounged on the deck of my villa with a glass of wine in one hand and fifty cent Harlequin romance I found at a thrift store in town.\u00a0 It was the best mind vacation I have ever taken.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve only been on two vacations that I wasn\u2019t \u2018working\u2019.\u00a0 Both trips were to Maui.\u00a0 Both trips included a ridiculous amount of scuba diving.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to sound sad, but if I could book a vacation (ha! Right!) I would probably go back and do it all over again.
\nGet to the airport with the butterflies and anticipation of seeing the beauty of Maui would be the most amazing feeling.\u00a0 When you depart the plane and it smells of plumeria fill the whole terminal.
\nMy favorite part of the trip, you would guess would be standing out on the beach looking out at the ocean. It\u2019s my second favorite part.\u00a0 The first part is walking into the dive shop and buying my air tanks.
\nThere is something about the smell of the neoprene and the buzz of knowing it won\u2019t be long before you have all your gear on and walking down that beach or back rolling off the side of a boat.<\/p>\n
Time\u2019s up for this mind vacation.\u00a0 Time to get back to reality where I am wondering if I will have enough money to make sure my daughter has enough for her senior yearbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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