For the last few days I've been away from home enjoying a break - I'd go as far as saying it was a much-needed break to be honest; A time to recharge, to see something new and do very little at all - No fixed agenda. I've spent it with nature mostly, hiking and sitting around looking at the sea roll in and out and thinking about stuff. It's been reasonably enjoyable and I lucked out with the weather as well - No rain...Although it's been cool.
Today it all came to an end though. I saddled up the big dog and headed home with my camper trailer in tow...Reluctantly headed home I might add. I would rather have stayed.
It's a long drive, almost 700 kilometres and I'm heading back on a different route because there's some silo art I want to take a look at in a place called Kimba. I'm hoping the sun is in the right spot to grab a photo for you...I don't have the skills with a camera to make it work any other way so, fingers crossed y'all.
So yep, I'm heading home, and will get there after dark; I will back the camper trailer away into its storage spot and deal with cleaning it and getting it ready for my next trip on the weekend. No, I don't have the next trip planned yet, but I have to fool my mind into thinking there is a next trip so I can manage to drag my ass into work Thursday morning. Even then it's going to be difficult to get there...I need to think up an excuse not to! 😁
Work...Even just the thought of it depresses me right now and the thought of sitting in my office working only 24 hours after sitting on a rock looking at views like you see in this post...Well, it's not a pleasant thought. It'll be worse as I'll have to catch up on work from the last few days and I have a major issue I need to solve with a client as I wrote about a few days ago. Just the thought of it annoys me...Why! Why do holidays have to end?
I also need to deal with the tyre issue that happened on the way to my destination. I wrote about it a few days ago and you can see it here if you like. It's going to be costly I think, not just a simple new tyre. I spoke to someone yesterday who suggested I change the rims over to a more common size which will mean tyres will be more readily available if this was to happen again. Due to the tyre size and no availability I have had to return home without a spare on the trailer and that's not something I feel very comfortable with.
This will have to wait though, for a week or so at least...Not that it will be any easier on my wallet in a week. Besides, I want to think through my plan as I'm a do it right first time sort of chap.
Anyway, I probably sound a bit depressed in this post and part of me is to be honest, but also I feel pretty happy I had the chance to take this little trip in the first place, that I have the means to take trips like this now and then and that we're not locked down like other parts of the world. So really, I'm grateful...If a little disgruntled that I have to go to work tomorrow. I'm not sure why they say all good things must come to an end...I wonder why they have to! It doesn't seem fair. If it's good, why end it?
So, tell me about what you're like when your holidays come to an end...Do you get a little annoyed at having to go back to work and start planning the next right away like me?
I hate the end of holidays away and I can feel it in the second half of the trip, as the countdown to the final moments begins. I was actually looking at the cost of flights to Australia, but they are expensive and, there is so much uncertainty around Corona still. With the time we would have, there is no way we would be able to make the trip and then quarantine on both ends.
Looking at a more common tyre size might be a decent idea, but I am guessing out where you go, Bob Jane's aren't likely anyway.
I really work hard not to think about work when on the holiday...Today though, driving home...Was hard not to start that countdown to work tomorrow...Still, today was pay day so that's not all bad! Lol.
Yeah, flights here will be costly an with the pandemic thing? It might be wise to delay, although it wold be good to have you down here for a bit.
I'm still thinking on the tyre thing...Undecided as yet although the more common wheel/tyre combination seems smart. We'll see. It'll come down to money. 1x $400 is $400...3x $400 + 3x new rims? $1500 later...Hmm, we'll see.
I know that feeling you get in your stomach when the holiday draws to a close. Looks as if it was amazing barring the tyre malarkey.
I bloody hate the end of a holiday but on the flip side, sometimes it helps to start planning the next one!
Yeah, it was a legit trip...Not a lot happening, just nature and no work. I needed it I think. I could have done without the tyre situation but even that could have been far worse so I'll accept it for what it was.
Not a lot happening is the aim. I cant wait ill the end of June when Igo away for a week and just not do anything. Ah, bliss!
Come on end of June!
I'm usually happy to go back home after being away for some time. Just to enjoy my home again though. That feeling in your stomach once your free days are at an end sounds familiar. Never feels good to get back to work after some time away (or even after the weekend!).
I don't mind going home either...I get to see Cleo, my cat! She was very cuddly when I arrived an hour ago. :)
It's the work thing that does my head in although in truth I don't really mind my job. I'll front up and do it from tomorrow morning, all the while planning the next trip. :)
Honestly, this winter at work I had a 4 day weekend, as opposed to the normal 1 or 2, and I actually got upset I had the time off. The work week was a drag, but it was so routine that it flew by like nothing. It only took a couple of days off to make me realize how badly I didn't want to go back haha.
The camper will be waiting for you when that next adventure comes around and you'll have your tire shit all squared away. Keep your head up!
P.s. are we gonna see the pictures of the silo art?
Yeah, I don't mind work so much...It's just hard to accept going back when one is sitting on a cliff looking at something like this.
The silo art posts will come...I only got home an hour ago...And haven't stopped crying about having to go to work tomorrow yet. Lol.
Maybe if you cry enough, they'll fire you, and you can enjoy this all the time!
Been doing it for 20 years, they can't go without me. They just keep buying me more tissue boxes.
Holidays should never end, unfortunately most of us have to work, save and take a break to recharge, always sad when they come to an end.
Depending on destinations you plan in the future perhaps changing rims and tyres not a bad option, if the ones you currently have prove to be a problem replacing.
For those of use still able to go places we are fortunate many never leave home, start planning next adventure, best way to hold onto sanity...
Well, I made it back...Work looms large tomorrow...I'll have to perform too...But maybe I can roll in late and leave early? Lol.
So glad those years are behind me know, make additional for more holidays now 😁 and cost of living....
I don't mind work so much, [mostly.] 😭
I have always tried to skip the office jobs and it's been a while since I mostly work from home and have a flexible schedule. I do like working like this and having more control over what I decide to work on. Last year I stayed at the seaside for 3 months and I was combining holidays with work. It seemed quite perfect. So, I would say (even if it sounds too ideal to be true), we have to enjoy our work as if we were on a holiday...so, having at least multiple pauses with a lot of excitement.
It's good you have a work scenario that agrees with you, many do not.
After enjoying time off in nature.... Pretty much anyone would be slightly bothered to come back in the urban jungle and reconnect with all the issues. I can understand why monks are so serene and calm as they live their life in silence and tranquility. I have the same feeling as you when I come back from nature and silence is replaced with noise: cars, people screaming, a lot of external stimulation of the senses which can leave you depleted
I'd make the worst monk ever...All that fasting and stuff...Wouldn't agree with me.
The water looks so clear. It reminds me a bit of Croatia coastline or North of Turkey coast.
It's pretty nice for sure.
All good things must end because we live in a profit driven society that cannot afford the well being of people and a slow paced attitude lol ;). Imagine a world where taking it more easy would be priority. It would be a better one I would think.
I like the take it more easy world...Where is this world, I want to go there!
In my head 😆
Well that makes it problematic!
Lol a little bit 😂. Let's convince the outside world that it is abetter way to live 😇
Hmm, that's where you lose me as I think the world is too far gone to learn much besides the next consumer-item they want to buy.
We cannot give up...can't we? I know how frustrating everything is, I find myself wondering what still makes sense. Jeeeez I'm such a mess lol.
That's the only bad part of a vacation... the going back to work afterwards!
It sucks...But I'm thinking about the next and that's something. :)
Yeah.
We really need adequate rest to keep our bodies stable.
Your first picture is beach and rocks ,, Hahaha, Lol.
It remembers me in the past.
But this is a wonderful place.
I like to see it.
Ah yes, I recall your beach/rocks story. I never fell over here, but a wave got me!
Hahaha,,Just enjoy its beauty.
I also really like the beach,Kay is a beautiful place and very cool.
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I get so annoyed that I just don't go back and take the work with me on the holidays ;-)
Haha...If only I cold turn work into a permanent holiday! Good on you for doing so though. ✅
Looks like quite the beautiful place man! Was it a solo trip? I didn’t see any mention of faith and I haven’t been abreast of the things as I would like to! How’s faiths mum doing?
The ends of the trips are indeed tough, sometimes (hell all the time lol) the trips go by too fast! In some ways I enjoy the wind down, I tend to enjoy being back home in my own bed and all that. It will be good when we live in a place that’s almost like a vacation. Applied for some jobs, hopefully one will work out but don’t want to get ahead of myself otherwise they don’t happen.
The tire thing sucks I’ll have to check that out. When we drive to where we are going we are probably taking my car, the Subaru is in good shape but it’s nearing 40k miles and I don’t know if it will make a thousand plus miles in a trip without any issues. My car is better on gas anyways so that’s a better reason for me lol
I'm not one to stress about the end of a trip whilst it's still happening but am also not one to relish going back to work...That never makes much sense to me but I know some people see work as a social event or opportunity and so like to be there. I see it as a way to make money...I've thought of others but they're all illegal.
I check the tyres on my vehicles every week; I have an onboard compressor and so it's easy to do at home...I did the trailer too, before the trip. So I picked up a puncture somewhere along the way of the valve failed. Once it got down to low enough the tyre heats up and then destroys itself. Not ideal but it could have been far worse.
I don't comment on these aspects of life anymore, haven't for a few months. Just a privacy choice.
Ah no worries about the other part of life man, I hear you. There’s not a whole lot of privacy sometimes nowadays so we relish the ones we choose to have. Best wishes for that aspect of your life, whatever it may be!
The valve, didn’t think of that and it could have been that as well. Not too many things but with a destroyed tire like that it’s hard to get to the bottom of it sometimes to determine what it was, for nothing besides our peace of mind.
A recharge out in nature like this is always needed. Your lucky to have a place as nice as this to get out to. Beautiful water
Yeah, it's a good spot - A long way from home, but a nice spot to escape to.
Watching the sea roll in and out is the best way to think @galenkp! Your photos are beautiful. That blue water reflecting the sky - or blue sky reflecting the water is mesmerizing. Sorry that the idea of work depresses you. But you are right. It doesn't seem fair. Why can't holiday actually be our life!
It would be great if life could be one long holiday - The reality is it can't be, or not just yet anyway, and so I go to work. I didn't have the best day, loads of work to do but it ended...And tomorrow is Friday so the weekend isn't far! Thanks for commenting.
Ideally wouldn't it be wonderful to work on holiday.....