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Are you the sort of person who plans every detail of a trip? Or one who takes off with only vague ideas of where you want to stay each night on the way to your destination? Do you even have a destination? Of course, traveling for fun and traveling for business are two different things. I want to talk here about vacationing.<\/p>\n
When Jack and I were trucking, we had a given starting point and ending point, and a day we were expected to deliver. Other than those criteria, we were free to choose our own path. Of course, we paid for the diesel, so our \u201cpath\u201d was generally as straight a line as we could make it. When we go on vacation now, we usually don\u2019t even pack until the night before we\u2019re leaving. Then we complete the trip as we want to at the time, stopping early in the day if we feel tired or see something we want to explore.<\/p>\n
A couple of years ago, we drove from Idaho to Chicago and then came home through Iowa to see my mom and aunt. The only hotel reservations we made were in Chicago. Every other night, we chose a hotel that looked good at the time we wanted to stop. We had one thing we wanted to see specifically: The Iowa 80 truck stop\u2014just to relive our trucking days. While in Iowa, we decided to drive back a different route, and it was fun living on the fly.<\/p>\n
I knew a woman once who asked me about the things to see \u201cout west.\u201d We![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Depositphotos_24041219_s-2019_Compass.jpg?resize=243%2C192&ssl=1\")
were living in Virginia but of course had trucked extensively in the western states she wanted to see. She pulled out a map and started at the Grand Canyon, then worked her way up through Utah, Colorado, and into the Dakotas. We worked at a school and had the summer off, so I said, \u201cThat will be a great month-long trip, You\u2019ll have fun!\u201d \u201cA month?\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re doing this in two weeks. I have every minute planned.\u201d Wow! They came back exhausted but I guess had spent at least ten minutes at each attraction, lol. They had fun, and that\u2019s all that really counted. But that\u2019s not the way Jack and I roll. As they say, different strokes for different folks!<\/p>\n
How do you travel for fun? Do you have reservations made for each night and plans for each day\u2019s sightseeing? Or do you take the trip as it comes?<\/p>\n
Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dee<\/a> One Woman Only<\/a>, Book 2 of the Good Man series Are you the sort of person who plans every detail of a trip? Or one who takes off with only vague ideas of where you want to stay each night on the way to your destination? Do you even have a destination? Of course, traveling for fun and traveling for business are two different things. … Continue reading “Traveling on a whim #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,1246],"tags":[8,459,1250,1249,1006,1251],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-mfrw","tag-dee-s-knight","tag-mfrw","tag-planning","tag-random-trips","tag-traveling","tag-wandering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-Ax","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBurning Bridges<\/a> by Anne Krist: old letters put the lie to Sara\u2019s life. Now, mending her past mistakes while crossing burning bridges will be the hardest thing she\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>, Book 1 of the Good Man series
\nNaval Maneuvers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"