What is a vacation?
This month has flown by so quickly, probably because I've been staying fairly busy. Not busy by normal people's standards, but busy, as a retired full-timer and not having to do much of anything, so that if I do anything at all, I feel busy.
I haven't given up on taking a vacation this summer, but it doesn't seem likely to be in July. August looks like I've got some appointments, so it appears like my next chance at a vacation would be sometime in September. There's nothing wrong with a Fall vacation; the high country is beautiful, the weather has cooled off, and Fall is my favorite time of year to be in Colorado.
You may think to yourself that I don't need a vacation in the summer because I take one all winter long when I'm traveling, but that's not the way I see it. To me, my travels in the winter aren't a vacation at all; it’s just living my normal life in a place that's warm. The only vacation I get is a few weeks during the summer when I head up into the mountains and do vacation-type things.
Now I understand that some folks may not see the difference in the way I live on vacation and the way I live every other day, but to me, a vacation, just like happiness, is all in your mind, so if I feel like I'm on vacation, then I'm on a vacation. It's all a matter of how you look at the world and your place in it. And I tend to look at my place in the world as a happy place, no matter what's going on around me.
theboondork….. Living another day in paradise. Except for all the doctor appointments.
The Vulture Mine Museum, near Wickenburg, Arizona.
Usually in Barrel Racing, the horse and rider work as a team, slithering around the barrels with speed and grace, moving as one..... Other times, not so much.
Barrel Racing requires concentration, and lots of it.