Vacations- work in disguise?

If you read a P.G.Wodehouse book, you would think vacations are all about salt airs or the country sides- eggs for breakfast, heavy lunches, afternoon siestas under some shady tree (not that kind of shady) and dinners with wine and some suitable post prandials like brandy suitably followed by deep dreamless snoozes.

Of the many years I have been in US, I have rushed through vacations. Vacations and sight seeing have been indistinguishable from each other. Result? I come back a lot more tired than I left..... All this changed recently in Hawai'i (yes, for all you mainlanders-- its Hawai'i not Hawaii).

We really really chilled out. No schedules of what to visit and when., there were times I woke up to an idyllic day with nothing but the sound of waves seeping through the window pane and not having a clue what day or what time it was. I did exactly what I loved to do on a vacation- run in the mornings, drive around a bit, lunch well, watch t.v/post processes pictures in my laptop taken the previous day with a beer in hand, sleep, drive around a bit, photograph during the golden hour, wine and dinner, t.v or a book and sleep. Repeat and rinse for 8 days.

I was surprised when some of the folks i spoke to thought I was crazy to:
- Run on a holiday
- Use a computer to go online on a holiday
- Didn't fill my day with places to visit...

Oh well! All I can say is that- it was my vacation doing what I love with whom I love in a place that I loved.