We’re on a Break!
Next week is the infamous spring break. I never really traveled that much my first time through college. One year, we took a canoe from the college’s waterfront program, strapped it onto M’s Prism, and drove down to Key West. One ticket for being in a boat without appropriate lightening after dark, and we were camping on a privately owned, undeveloped island about 2 miles off Key West proper. (I’d go into more detail, but that would take too long and require changing too much of the truth to protect the guilty. Namely, me.)
Since college, I have kept a psuedo break of sorts by taking a day or two off for my birthday every year. But besides the great I’m-29-and-the-divorce-is-not-final LA trip, I’ve still stuck around town.
ST and I have had vague plans to take a cruise. We’ve looked at a couple of times, but somehow it never comes to fruition. The only real travel we’ve done together so far is visiting families. Going to the cabin was close to a vacation together, for we had a day or so on either end of the visit by ourselves, but otherwise we leave town just to make sure our grandparents remember what we look like.
So! We’re going to the other side of Florida next week. A little Everglades, a little Miami…a little time to just have fun.
It’s in this planning that I’ve decided spring break is wasted on the colliegate. College kids have no fiscal independence. Most don’t have cars! They spend the week getting drunk, which is exactly what they do every other week of the semester.
I think we should institute spring break for adults. Everyone, grab your map (if you so choose), your mate (if you so choose), and hit the road!
It’s my spring break too. Though, I doubt I’ll spend it getting drunk.