Vacations And The Holiday Mentality Don’s Fall Into The Fall
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger
Well, that was fun while it lasted.
Always is – days playing in the ocean, free concerts on the beach, girls with great tans in bikinis, warm (okay, too hot!) weather, people not in school, people on vacation and the general relaxation of responsibility that makes this time the best time of the year.
And now it’s over, for I’m seeing those dreaded back-to-school ads (I always hated those as a kid; I mean here I am splashing around in the neighborhood swimming pool and advertisers are putting thoughts of going to class in my carefree mind!), college football training camps are underway and the NFL preseason games are on TV.
Labor Day is upon us in the USA and that’s our last breath of summertime. After that, it’s time to get back to the normal rest-of-the-year routine, time to get serious again.
Uggg.
I like the summertime. Heck, I was built for the summertime. I’m an outdoors, shorts-and-sandals, be-at-the-beach kind of guy. I don’t like putting on shoes, coats and having the sun set before the start of Happy Hour.
Yet that what happens with the end of summer, and it’s a real bummer.
Oh sure, I live in Southern California (at the beach, no less) and some people may scoff “hey, it’s Endless Summer where you live!”
And while that’s true to a point, there are things here that change with the season.
For starters, instead of going to be the beach on sunny Saturday and particularly Sunday afternoons, people put on jerseys, go to the bars and watch their college football or hometown NFL team. While that certainly has its moments, it takes some air out of the excitement of a great summertime beach day.
Plus, the activity tends to slow down and that “busy frenzy” is one of the traits of summertime all over the world. People tend to be in vacation frame of mind even when they are not on vacation.
So I’ll miss that but, in true PubClub.com style, I’ll somehow make the most out of the fall.
Cheers!
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