Written 8-7-2019
When it comes time for a new vacation, early calculations are applied on interest, finances, location, duration, housing, transportation, cultural events, shopping opportunities, natural wonders, and dinning options.
With just one more day left in our vacation, Sharon and I are in full agreement that the arc of our Victoria BC vacation has been a Hugh success!
In a town often noted to mostly having other visitors that are either newly wed, or nearly dead, due to all that cruise ship traffic in the neighborhood, we’re enjoying the scenery, the pace, the current weather, the other international visitors, and the vitality of this place.
Today, we were buzzing all around in the county side, antiquing, and even kicking the foundations on some ocean-front homes for investment opportunities. Only kidding.
We love a new place that can trigger older memories!
For example, seeing a line-up of vintage Kodak folding cameras brought back my own early painful buyer’s remorse experience. In high school, I worked as a stock boy in a camera shop after school and Saturdays. One day someone brought in a vintage Kodak folding camera he wanted to sell. He opened it up to show the great condition of the bellows and everything, and I agreed with him that the camera was in great condition but I had to tell him that the shop wasn’t buying any used cameras.
There was a long moment of silence before I did say that I would buy it for $10.00.
The gentleman said thanks but no thanks and left with his camera. However, later that afternoon he came back to say he would sell it to me for $10. I gave him the money, he gave me the camera, and he left.
After he was gone I quickly discovered that I didn’t know how to open the damn camera! I spent what seemed like an eternity on it but I couldn’t get it open. The more I struggled to open the camera, the more I was sure that I had been scammed. I thought to myself, that guy had one good camera that opened nicely and always came back with just the shell of other broken cameras to actually sell to everyone.
Later that evening the store manager inquired about me and my big commotion. I told him that I could not open an old Kodak camera. He reached over and pressed a hidden button under the leather on the side of the camera. It opened so smoothly like nobody’s business.
I looked at him with a stupid look on my face and said, “Oh, I see.”
That’s it. That’s the one missing calculation when assessing potential vacation travel ideas. If you choose any particular vacation option how often are you likely going to mutter to yourself, “Oh, I see.”
Before you can ever really say it, you first need to experience something completely different than you already know. Say it with me, “Oh, I see.”
Calculate your next vacation accordingly, eh?
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