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Travel Quickly: 10 Tips to Plan a Long Weekend Trip

You Have to Travel Quickly if You Work a 9-5 If you’re like me, you probably have a full-time job and are passionate about traveling. 4-month long trips are out of the question for you, but you can travel quickly, taking advantage of your time off and long weekends to travel as much as you can. I wrote about how to maximize your vacation days to travel more if you work a 9-5 job. Now, I want to talk about how you can craft the perfect long weekend trip. Long weekend trips are perfect if you have a Monday off for a federal holiday. Take an extra day off (preferably a Tuesday) and you’re staring at an ideal vacation. A long weekend is just enough time to get a good feel for a new place, have some wonderful experiences, eat some good food, and get back to work without spending…

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Girl hiking Old Rag

My Love/Hate Relationship with Hiking and Covid-19

I can’t imagine a more perfect metaphor for how I feel about Covid-19 than how I feel about hiking. Let me explain… I Used to Hate Hiking. And I tried to like it for a long time. I grew up in Virginia, went to college in Virginia, and was located by some of the most beautiful hikes in the U.S. But every time I went hiking, I despised it more, until I eventually just stopped trying. In my mind I would try to justify hours of gruesome uphill tourture with the glorious ten minutes of looking at a pretty view. What was the point, I asked myself. I came to the conclusion that a pretty view wasn’t a significant reward for hours of pain. A few years later, after college, I was living at home, attending grad school, when I decided to give hiking another try. My Mom and I…

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