Coast to Coast

I've mulled over a number of ideas as for what to do with seven weeks of mandatory vacation, and finally latched onto something: I'm going to drive from coast to coast, then back again. It's an eight- or ten-day trek if you keep to the highways and go straight there and back, but I'll take a more meandering course, which will stretch it out a bit. It probably won't fill the whole time, but I'm guessing I can blow three to five weeks of it.

I can't really say why I feel the need to do this. It just strikes me that I have the opportunity, and I might as well. Mainly, it's the sinking feeling I get at the prospect of not doing anything at all - seven weeks of paid vacation is a rare opportunity, one that I'll probably never have again, and I'd just feel sick about it in the future, if I looked back and thought of all the things I could have did, but didn't.

And so, driving coast-to-coast on the back roads seems like a good enough "accomplishment" to have filled the time. And though I'll probably regret some of the things I might have done, but didn't do, at least there will be one thing I can say that I did, as an excuse for not doing whatever it is I come to regret not having done.