Good day mates! Welcome to your special Covid-19 Vacation edition of the Wannaskan Almanac! Even though boarding a plane or driving across county lines has become a huge concern, there are many ideas for a fun family vacation. So buckle up the seatbelt on your recliner, make sure you have film in your digital camera, and be ready to make some summertime memories!
1. Virtual Vacations. A virtual vacation is one where you are really just spying on someone else's vacation video. The person in the video has gone to some place interesting (like the Bahamas, or Baudette) and they show you the sites while offering interesting and informative narration. This virtual vacation video (purported to be from a trip to Williams, Minnesota) is one of my favorites.
2. Staycation. You would be surprised how easy it is to make your own property into a vacation funland! For example, you can stop mowing your yard for a month or two. Make sure you water it daily and in no time at all you have your own jungle safari. Send the kids out with a machete to hack their way through the dense growth. They will have a blast! Wild animals will often move in to the yard, which will only increase the enjoyment.
3. Read a book. Books are a great way to take your mind off of your lack of ability to go anywhere. Many authors are able to describe the settings of their stories so well that you might even feel like you are "there". Just the other day I read a great book about beer drinking. I even felt a little drunk toward the end. I must recommend it to you. The book was called "Hops in Pop". I think it was even written by a doctor...some sort of alcohol doctor is my guess.
4. The old car in the garage trick. This is a great way to relive the vacation experience. Pack up some dirty clothes in a suitcase, take the whole family into the garage and put the suitcase in the trunk of the family truckster. Then sit in the car in the hot garage while you all get sweaty, hungry, and agitated. Eventually you will all start arguing and genuinely detesting each other. Stay there for at least 8 hours, alternating between arguments and hostile silence. Nothing beats family time!
5. Take a trip to the Amazon...amazon.com that is! While there, buy shirts from different vacation hotspots. When they show up you can put them on and take family pictures. If you want to really go all out, buy some backdrops from the same location. Post the pictures on social media and watch as people either jealously like your pics or send you hate filled posts about social distancing and stay at home orders!
There you have it. As they say in France, Bon Voyage!
1. Virtual Vacations. A virtual vacation is one where you are really just spying on someone else's vacation video. The person in the video has gone to some place interesting (like the Bahamas, or Baudette) and they show you the sites while offering interesting and informative narration. This virtual vacation video (purported to be from a trip to Williams, Minnesota) is one of my favorites.
2. Staycation. You would be surprised how easy it is to make your own property into a vacation funland! For example, you can stop mowing your yard for a month or two. Make sure you water it daily and in no time at all you have your own jungle safari. Send the kids out with a machete to hack their way through the dense growth. They will have a blast! Wild animals will often move in to the yard, which will only increase the enjoyment.
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3. Read a book. Books are a great way to take your mind off of your lack of ability to go anywhere. Many authors are able to describe the settings of their stories so well that you might even feel like you are "there". Just the other day I read a great book about beer drinking. I even felt a little drunk toward the end. I must recommend it to you. The book was called "Hops in Pop". I think it was even written by a doctor...some sort of alcohol doctor is my guess.
4. The old car in the garage trick. This is a great way to relive the vacation experience. Pack up some dirty clothes in a suitcase, take the whole family into the garage and put the suitcase in the trunk of the family truckster. Then sit in the car in the hot garage while you all get sweaty, hungry, and agitated. Eventually you will all start arguing and genuinely detesting each other. Stay there for at least 8 hours, alternating between arguments and hostile silence. Nothing beats family time!
5. Take a trip to the Amazon...amazon.com that is! While there, buy shirts from different vacation hotspots. When they show up you can put them on and take family pictures. If you want to really go all out, buy some backdrops from the same location. Post the pictures on social media and watch as people either jealously like your pics or send you hate filled posts about social distancing and stay at home orders!
There you have it. As they say in France, Bon Voyage!
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