Rehab treatment centers in california seem to advertising themselves as if they were luxury vacation spots where people can address their problems in posh accommodations and comfort. When I think of a person going to a spot like that I think of them going to a spa to get facials, manicures and pedicures. I often wonder if allowing people to be in such comfort while they are trying to fix their problems is really going to be as effective as it would be if the accommodations were a little bit more spartan.
Category: Travel
Today I had the opportunity to go to a meeting in a town that I have not been to since 1971. The last time I was there I was going to visit a cousin that lived there. At the time, it was all farm land – just trees and wide open fields. Well, I found it very interesting that everywhere I looked was highly developed city landscape; high rise buildings, shopping malls, town house condominiums.
I wonder if that is what is going to happen to the town I live in now; in forty years will it be a city, too? There are more cows than people here, and not a single retail store or gas station or traffic light. How quickly will progress march into this farm town?
This evening I had an appointment up in the Broadlands. I used my GPS to get there, and it took me along a short stretch of a toll road that cost me four dollars that I was not expecting to have to pay. I was quite annoyed because my GPS usually advises me at the begining of a trip that there will be toll charges and offering to take me a different route. Well, I wanted to save money as much as possible so on the way home when I directed the GPS to take me home I directed it to avoide the toll road (this time it advised me that a toll road was part of the route.) Anyway I was taken down a lot of winding country roads that were very narrow, and I started to wonder if maybe a hacker had gotten onto the satellites and having a good time getting me lost! Eventually I ended up on a main road that I recognized and I made my way home, none the worse for wear.
When I was married to my first husband, we went on a fantastic vacation with his grand parents. We flew first class from the East Coast to Hawaii. The trip was very long, but since we went first class we were very comfortable. That was the only vacation I’ve ever had where we were in the first class section of the airplane. I can’t imagine a trip that long in the coach section of a plane. As far as I’m concerned every flight that goes overseas like that should have ALL first class seats!
Anyway, what was so nice about the trip was that his grandparents had vacationed there many times before and they took us around the islands as our tour guides. They showed us the best local Restaurants and Coffee Shops, and we stayed in the best Hotels on the islands. We were so impressed at how friendly everybody seemed to be, and we wondered if it was a genuine friendliness or simply “part of the job.” I’d like to think that it was genuine friendliness, but that is something I’d definitely want more information on if we ever decided to move there (which is a huge fantasy of mine!) Living on a tropical island is definitely something I’d love to do!
My kids had the opportunity to visit London with their father several years ago. I was so excited for them, but jealous at the same time. My family’s roots are in London, and I still have relatives there that I would love to meet and visit. My fantasy trip to London would include staying in some historic London Apartments that are clean and safe but near the touristy attractions like Big Ben and the Tower of London.
I don’t even know enough about London to know if there ARE any short term rental London Apartments available near those types of places! So I would definitely be wanting some of my cousins to show us around and take us to their favorite local places that are NOT the usual tourist traps, but we’d want to see the famous tourist things as well. We’d probably have to stay there a couple of weeks to take it all in. Sadly, with the economy the way it is, and our personal financial struggles getting in the way, our trip to London may just always be an unfulfilled dream. Wouldn’t it be nice if our ship came in and it was the Queen Elizabeth II?