I got back from Las Vegas on Monday, and I still haven’t caught up on my sleep three days later. So basically, it’s just like every other trip I take.
Whether it’s Spring Training or Europe or Door County or a family trip to Orlando, I run myself ragged on pretty much every vacation. Exceptions may include my honeymoon in St. Martin, or a boring trip I took to the Bahamas in 2005. Is this how everyone travels?
My problem, I think, is that I want to soak everything in when I’m away from home. I get bored lounging around. Sure, it’s easier to lie on the beach, but I’ve never been able to spend a whole day doing that.
Obviously, this is a great problem to have. I’m lucky to have visited so many cool places over the years. But I’m almost 40. I shouldn’t need a vacation from a vacation.
What’s your plan for actually unplugging, slowing down and recharging on vacation? I really want to know.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
