In a couple weeks, my wife, my father and I are going on our first real vacation in a long, long time. Considering my wife and I never really had a honeymoon, it will be our first real getaway vacation as a couple. And as for Dad, it’s been over a decade since we went somewhere together for an extended stay somewhere.
So we’re escaping to Webb Lake in Hackensack, Minnesota for a week. It’s a place my mom and dad took me as a kid. It’s not huge, but it’s a great fishing lake. And being out on the water in a boat for several hours a day is, I think, good for the soul.
There will be a few differences from the last time I went. Mom’s no longer with us, for one. Also, we’ll have a lot more electronics with us, even if we don’t plan to use them a ton.
Still, even on a lake, checking in on email and such is nice to be able to do, even if part of a real vacation is getting away even from that.
I’ll be bringing my laptop. Not for daylight hours when I should be fishing. But for the sundown hours? I want a tool I’m comfortable with if inspiration strikes and I start a new novel, or get new energy behind my current one. And I also imagine I may work on some sermons and such, just to have some in reserve.
But fishing? Oh, you know there’s going to be some serious fishing done that week.
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