If You Can’t Find Me Tomorrow, Check Australia
Posted by Moose on April 22nd, 2009. Filed under: Travel.Saturday morning, I woke to the sound of waves lapping the sand. By Sunday afternoon, I wasn’t so much flirting with melanoma as I was engaged in heavy petting and dubbed “that poor-complected hussy” by melanoma’s long-suffering parents. I went to Santa Cruz with Kristin this weekend. She was there to run a marathon, I was there to sprawl out on valuable beach real estate and remain totally inert until 1) the sun went down or 2) a small child poked me with a stick to see if I was human or some exciting form of previously undiscovered jumbo shrimp.
This is how I travel, see. I go with friends intent on some lofty purpose – to push the bounds of reasonable human endurance or master medieval Italian. While they’re doing that, I take a nap.
Apparently, my driving goal in life is to be well rested.
But not today, apparently. I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning and instead of dutifully falling back to sleep, I opted to research flights to Sydney. I was about two delirious minutes from punching in my credit card numbers and tapping out an email quitting my job when I realized that if I’m interested in drastic change, perhaps a nice haircut would be a smarter choice.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
I think you should go on an exotic vacation and then write about it! Why not?!
Plus, as long as you choose your destination wisely, it could be very very affordable! And you’ve got vacation time! Do it!
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:08 am
God, I fantasize about fancy places and quitting my job…sigh. Thank god I’m a teacher and am done in a month.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:12 am
God, Sidney sounds like a dream right now. I could hook you up with one of my best friends (who happens to live there).
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:18 am
There are commercials on the radio in Chicago about how flights to Australia are at an all-time low! And then they proceeded to tell me it’s like $1800 round trip. That is not cheap to me. At all.
Also, Australia hates Americans. Trying to get a Visa there is not easy. It’s probably because we serve Fosters and have Outback restaurants.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I’ll be spending this weekend in Santa Cruz, but replacing the beach with kittens! But that’s about as exotic as I’ll be getting any time soon with my 12 hours of vacation time. Hurumph. But on the other hand, kittens!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Now do you see why I’m going to Australia for my honeymoon? It’s SO CHEAP TO GET THERE RIGHT NOW! And sure, cheap is relative, but still: it’s cheaper than it NORMALLY is. Hey, come with me on my honeymoon. That won’t be weird and awkward at all!
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I know a woman who quit her pretty good paying office job and now she works twelve hours at Neiman Marcus for $9 an hour and is using food stamps for her groceries. Because she cant find any other work. Oh wait, she got a 20 hour temp gig walking around her neighborhood doing the census or something like that. For $12 an hour. The haircut was a good choice. Ha ha
April 26th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Hi Kristabella! Australians don’t HATE Americans! We have just learnt to be very very cautious around them! Don’t worry – we forgive the whole Fosters/Outback nonsense. Come and visit us. We are nice (most of the time).
April 27th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
This is how I vacation as well.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:30 am
A haircut might be fun, but an exotic vacation wouldn’t hurt either if you could take one without the whole job quitting thing. Isn’t it weird how taking a vacation breeds mad vacation taking lust? I can get along just fine until I’ve gone on a trip . . . then ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT is how to take more trips.