Without fail, we had mediocre weather during our staycation. The day before we planned to walk a lakeside trail and have a picnic on the beach, it rained nonstop. Still, we stuck to our plan and showed up at the lake the following morning to find intense fog and wet sand. Our instinct was to just power through — even if we were cold and our kid was miserable — until we realized that this wasn’t our only chance to have this experience.
Not only could we swap this day’s plan with another later in the week, but if we couldn’t make it happen this “trip,” it’s not like we’d never be back here again. Knowing that at the end of the vacation you aren’t permanently leaving missed opportunities behind makes you much more apt to change plans when they just aren’t panning out.
