How To Bring Vacation Home

I am sitting on the balcony, overlooking the waves of the Pacific Ocean, sipping a sugar free vanilla caramel coffee in my flip flops and shorts.  How awesome this is. The I got to thinking. If my regular life was like this, how wonderful it would be. To be able to experience this at home.

So the goal is to bring vacation home. Where can I get work done that's not in my stuffy bedroom office. I could join all the office trolls at Starbucks but that is so not me. I want piece and quiet. Too much foot traffic.  Some other places to bring my laptop or ipad with me to get work done would be any bagel shop, any McDonalds (yuk) or any ma and pa coffee place.
Here is the cool thing. Find a nice place to sit like a park or quiet little boutique area that is adjacent to a McDonalds or Starbucks or even a library. Use your free wifi app to help you find all the wifi locations to work at. Here is my favorite thing. Go to the lobby sitting area of a big hotel. The always have open wifi in the lobby area for guests. There never is a password since no sane person would show up to the lobby that wasn't a guest.

Now get your coffee wherever. Mcdonald's coffee is not bad. Starbucks is over rated so I choose the local bagel shop or Mcdonald's or get free coffe at the lobby of the Hotel your net surfing at. In fact, go to the pool area and sit under an umbrella. You may not get into the pool immediate area but there is plenty of outside seating elsewhere.

If your not one to venture, try working on your patio or your front yard. All we really want is fresh air and sunlight to make us feel spoiled. That is what we do on vacation and we never do it at home.

So today, everyone try to get out and get some work done with the sunshine on your face. It's pretty refreshing.

BTW, If you work for the man in an corporate office building your screwed. Just quit and start your own business. You can be an Entrepreneur even if you can't spell it.

Family Vacation - San Diego

So as some of you know I fantasize about the idea of a STAYCATION. I love not driving, flying or fighting other people to get where I want to go.

Driving sucks. You have to time when your leaving So Cal because if you leave at the wrong time, it could take you hours to get out of your own neighborhood. It once took me 3 hours to travel 50 miles. So leaving in the wee hours of the morning is best.

If your traveling by airport then forget it. Just expect to be miserable the whole time. Everyone is irritated they have to strip down, pull out electrical devices, get scanned like your some foreign object. Then waiting to be funneled into a metal tube where the seat belts barely snap closed and your arm is in the lap next to  you. I love how these plane designs are from 1963.
My favorite part is the guy trying to cram a carry on luggage the size of an elephant into the overhead compartment. That guy always puts it above MY head. I am always the lucky guy who sits there with some stranger's crotch pressing against my shoulder while my life hangs on the line with the fact that he is strong enough NOT to drop this luggage on my head.

The most exciting part of arrive at your timeshare/hotel is to realize that your there 2 hours early for check in. Now your exhausted, irritated, hungry and smell bad from traveling all day and they tell you that your room won't be ready until 4pm. HOW FRICKEN LONG DOES IT TAKE TO CLEAN A ROOM. You kick us out at 11am and can't have 1 room available until 4pm. Seriously???

So, I get into my room and we always do the same thing. I run around turning on all the lights. I see what immunities we have. I look in the kitchen at all the utensils i know I am not every going to use on vacation. I just like to know my options. Then I cran on the AC. I figure that I am getting every pennies worth of this room. I order 7 bags of coffee right away knowing they only gave us one bag fot the first day. I also ask for extra pillows knowing that your head is going to sink right through the first one as soon as you go to bed.
Then the music source. I must set up music knowing that this room was decorated in 1985. I set up my MONSTER BLUETOOTH SPEAKER that plays all my music from my iphone without even docking it. I then set up my little office/charging station. A place for my toys. ipad, laptop, watch, keys, iphone, gum and hotel key. This is my go to spot. Surf the net, play music or just read a book.

This week it's San Diego. It's close to home. Quick drive. And closer to mexico meaning even better mexican food places that the OC. Yes Seaworld and the zoo are in my plans. To make it fun, I have brought my CANON T2i with the zoom lens. I plan on documenting everything in photos and video. I also brought my iphone of course and will be hitting as much food spots as possible to bring back home for my JACK ON THE GO SHOW (http://youtube.com/jackonthego)

So what are some things you hate about vacations and what are some crazy rituals you do when you arrive at your room?