As mentioned, we aren't travelling much this summer as the holiday budget is going to be spent on landscaping part of the garden. However, I also think that we need to get out of the house, especially my wife, who works from home a lot. While convenient, one of the things about working from home a lot is, it makes the home a workspace, not a home.
I need to get out too.
So, we have booked a couple of nights in other towns, where we have some things to do. Leaving sometime next week, we will visit a castle, have a couple days at a kind of outdoor adventure park and pool complex, spend a couple nights with my friend's family, then move on to have a couple nights at a spa center on the coast. That adds up to six nights away, but only 4 nights for paid accommodation.
From there, what we do is going to depend on the weather, because we would like to head to a coastal beach to swim in the sea, but if there weather gods don't play nice, we will likely come home and then try for later in the month. The Finnish summer is fickle at best, so it could be that there will be no suitable days at all.
But even this short trip is still relatively expensive to do, just for the places to stay. On top of that, there is the food, fuel, incidentals, and whatever else comes up. While I do think that we should get away out of the home for a bit, we also got a quote for a slice of the ground work that we will have done, and it isn't cheap.
I am counting each booking amount in foundation foam, gravel fill and bricks.
This doesn't help of course, but every decision comes with an opportunity cost and when financial resources are low, the opportunity is far more limited, because the costs are more impactful. That is unfortunately where we are with the landscaping project at the moment. I am not willing to dip into savings for any of this yet, so it will be done piece by piece over the space of years if we have to.
One day.... crypto.
But not yet it seems.
Regardless of all of this though, I am looking forward to getting away for a few nights with the family and seeing some things that we haven't seen before. It will also be nice to spend a couple nights with my friend, as we barely see each other these days due to distance and work schedules. Hopefully a few days away from home will be enough for my wife to feel a little recharged, but I think it is also going to take some very warm weather. She is like a solar panel.
If only she could keep the lights on.
Taraz
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