Weirdly, I do that at home on rainy days. You can call that staycation?
A lot cheaper, and the bed is the best one.
Yeah, that is pretty great, too. But I find it hard to actually laze around when I'm at home - there's so much that needs to get done, and it's hard for me to ignore it.
Well, where I live, it's an activity, after all I ski five days a week. But if I went to a place that required me to buy lift tickets and lodging (essentially ON TOP of my pass and my mortgage), then it's "special".
Yeah, I can see that. But when I'm skiing, I emphatically do not sleep in (unless it's spring and I don't need to worry about parking), so it doesn't feel like a vacation.
I understand that mine is a totally idiosyncratic way of looking at vacationing. If I go to mountain bike, it's more of an activity. If I go to chill out, it's vacation.
My first vacation in quite a while is coming up shortly. I'll be visiting my parents. They live near the beach and have a dock in their back yard. They have a lovely gazebo on their deck overlooking the water. The water itself is brackish, but at high tide there's a path through the grasses to get to the intracoastal waterway. I've already made clear that my plan is to sleep in, have coffee in the gazebo ... and if we don't do anything but that the whole time, that's fine with me.
Before that, a couple of days with my husband's parents, meeting up in Flagstaff. I think that will also be vacation-y. The only real agenda is to hang out and eat good food.
Then the visit to family and friends in Utah, bookending a mountain biking clinic in Park City - that's an activity, not vacation.
(I'm being laid off, hence all the free time - between jobs is an excellent chance to visit family if you can swing the gap.)