The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Vacation

  • Don’t You Have Jobs?

    As a bridgetender I get to look down upon the leisure class, literally and figuratively.

  • The Curse of Summer Vacations

    The reality of summer never fit with my fantasies.

  • My Very Last Vacation

    I live for travel. I used to go to a different foreign country every two years. I miss that. I hope to get back to that financial place again at some point. I also hope to have someone to travel with again one of these days. Traveling alone isn’t nearly as fun. Who knows what…

  • Canyonlands National Park, Utah

    Believe me, I know how excruciating it can be to sit through other people’s vacation photos. You’re happy for them, yes, and a little envious. But beyond that… you’ll never get that hour back. But guess what. Nanny nanny poo poo. This is my blog! I know I’ve already written about Arches National Park and…

  • National Compassion Fatigue

    No matter who you vote for on November 8th (and please, please do!), I think there’s one thing that most Americans can agree on: we’re tired. We’re tired of this pervasive feeling that everything in this country is going to hell in a handbasket, even if we can’t seem to agree on the root causes.…

  • Sightseeing in the Fog

    I’ve been vacationing on the Oregon coast. I’d never been to Oregon before. It’s gorgeous. I could totally see myself retiring here, if retirement weren’t some distant fantasy for me. And if I hadn’t seen so many Donald Trump yard signs. My first two days were sunny and clear. Not a cloud in the sky.…

  • Road Tripping

    I just got back from a trip to Vancouver. I’ll be writing quite a bit about that, I’m sure. But right now I’m writing about road trips in general. I absolutely love to travel. It’s my reason for being. Seeing things I’ve never seen and doing things I’ve never done just seems to feed my…

  • Unplug

    Recently a friend of mine posted some quotations by the author Anne Lamott on her Facebook page. One that really struck a chord with me was this one: “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” Wise words indeed. I thought of them last night when my wifi…

  • Hell Hath its Benefits

    When I listen to my coworkers complain about this job, I have to inwardly giggle. They think this job is bad. They think they’re being mistreated. For 13 years I was in a horrible job situation. I worked graveyard shifts and got a one dollar raise every 6 years, and they tried to find ways…

  • Would You Travel to Cuba?

    With the negotiations for the normalization of US/Cuban relations, there’s been this huge spike in Google searches for Cuban vacations. It’s controversial, of course. Just because the borders may open up to us does not mean that human rights violations won’t still be in full force. Just look at China. So yeah, I did that…