Rebuilding Rob

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

If you had 3 days off from work, would you rather go to the beach, a busy city, the countryside, on a camping trip, or stay at home?

To answer this prompt, I guess it would really depend on how much I’ve been working up to this point. If I’ve been working nonstop for weeks, I would probably want to just take a few days off and stay home. I know the term “staycation“ sounds kind of cheesy, but Sometimes it’s just necessary to regroup and recharge in your natural surroundings. Plus, it’s also sometimes nice to just get things done around the house.

I think the one reason I would want to go to a busy city would be as a tourist, to do touristy things like New York City. Or if I wanted to go in catch a major league baseball game in a major city.

But if I had to choose one, right now, I would probably choose the beach. It’s funny that those particular prompts comes up today because I was at Walmart yesterday and on their “Walmart radio“ they happen to be playing a bunch of their summer/vacation songs: I heard “Margarita by Jimmy Buffett. I heard “good vibrations“ by The Beach Boys. There were a few others, but they are escaping me at the moment.

As I was walking through that store, and listening to these songs celebrating summer, just after walking in from the blazing heat outside, if it occurred to me that I need to get to the beach. I need to feel the sand between my toes. I need to feel that sting of salt water on my body. I love that feeling when I shake the sand off of my feet before getting back into the car to drive home.

Even that sobering feeling that you get once you get back into the car. Where you were realizing that you’re a little escape from reality has ended, and you’re easing yourself back into “the real world“. As disappointing as a car ride home is, and also serves as a reminder of what you just experienced. It’s like the old saying goes is “don’t cry because it’s over; but be happy because it happened“

The point is I freaking love summer! I know it’s hot. I know it’s humid. I know some days the heat is relentless, but I would rather have blazing sun than frigid cold temperatures any day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

As I’ve said before, I think that’s the reason that I love baseball as much as I do. Sure I like the sport, but it reminds me of summertime. Some of my fondness, memories, crying up or listening to tiger games on WJR radio here in Detroit. Back in the 80s, we didn’t get all 162 games on television, so we are more likely to listen to the radio for Tiger games and we were to catch them on TV.

But I think another reason I place summer on such a pedestal is because I’ve lived most of my life around the academic calendar. When you’re a kid in school, summer is the ultimate goal. It is the destination. It is the reward for working through nine months of the school year, particularly in crappy weather.

So yes, to answer today’s prompt, my choice is the beach. Always the beach.

well, you know, unless it’s raining…

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