This thread reminds me that Mike would never agree to take vacations years ago, when the kids were young and they needed the experiences of camping, touring the historic places they had studied in school, etc. He just grew up in a family thst never went anywhere....
So did I, but I was determined ours would have a bit broader view of things. It started with mecollecting the stuff needed for tent camping. He finally decided that he should go along on our first planned campout, just to " protect" us. That turned into us buying a pop-up camper and getting away at least a few times. Then, his gather got too frail to feed for us, and we were stuck home again.
This farm tied us down even worse. Buying our bikes nine years ago got us going a little bit again. Our trip last week, which was really just for a day away, a day in Va close to home, was very rejuvenating. I think it did him a world of good emotionally...both daughter and I commented on it to each other on Friday. Geting him to set aside those two days was like pulling teeth, though.
It is probably like so many things. The one who needs it most is the hardest yo get to budge.
