After nearly four-and-a-half years of writing this daily blog, I’ve decided to take a short blogcation. Some might describe a blogcation as going on an adventure and writing about it, but I’m simply going to take a few days off while I travel. I’m headed to Indianapolis on the redeye tonight for at least four NCAA first round tournament games. My computer will stay home, so what ever I document on my phone log will have to wait to be posted. Besides, it has been difficult to come up with ideas to write about these past few months. No one wants to know what I had for breakfast, but this is all the variety I have some days. 

Now that I’m fully vaccinated, I feel a little more freedom in getting away from the routine. My first inclination was not to do this trip, but there’s some comfort in going home to Indianapolis. I will pass through there again in a few weeks on our drive from Oregon to Florida, but this will be a chance to see my friends (not mention basketball) without the responsibilities of wife and dog. It’s the first time I’ve been without them both in nearly two years, since we haven’t been traveling even separately. Business trips would have us going our different ways, but since her retirement this has not been the case. We’ve been cramped together in a tiny apartment for the last eighteen months with several long drives being our sole getaways – anything more elaborate was cancelled. 

I’ll try to get some sleep tonight in my first-class seat from Seattle to Chicago. Tomorrow morning’s run will take place at O’Hare. I’ll somehow deal with the three-hour time change then be up late for a Purdue game. I’m no longer a spring chicken and this will take a lot out of me, but it’s a once in a lifetime experience – the entire NCAA tournament in my Hoosier state. The adventure will be something to write about, and during the long flight there and back I’ll find some time to record my thoughts to post when I get back in three days. What happens in Indiana will stay in Indiana because I’ll be on a blogcation.