Vacation Without a Vacation: How I Learned to Rest Without Taking One
A vacation without a vacation sounded impossible to me for a long time. I didn’t take a real trip for five years, not because I didn’t want to, but because life kept giving me perfectly reasonable excuses: Work. Family. Finances. “Next year.” Then another year passed. And another. Before I knew it, five years had gone by without packing a suitcase or stepping away from my everyday life. For a long time, I thought rest had to wait until I…