Has the outdoor lifestyle ever caused conflict with anyone here when their relatives don't share their enthusiasm for the outdoors?
This has been an issue with me and my mother and siblings for a while. I have a limited amount of vacation time each year and want to spend it either backpacking, long distance cycling, fishing or a combination of the above. I want to see what I can see, go where I can go, experience what I can experience.
My mother takes a week at a time share every year and wants all of us to meet up there. I have gone to it several times and it drives me crazy. They don't do anything at all. They just sit around by the swimming pool all day and eat or go inside and watch stupid TV.. I want to try out local hikes of maybe rent a bike and no one else wants to.
They just sit there by the pool all day and won't even consider doing anything that takes them away from the plugged in world or can be done without being driven around in a tour bus.
If that is all they do on vacation why don't they just stay home and do those things? Eventually I quit going to those get-togethers altogether because I felt like I had wasted my whole vacation.
This has been an issue with me and my mother and siblings for a while. I have a limited amount of vacation time each year and want to spend it either backpacking, long distance cycling, fishing or a combination of the above. I want to see what I can see, go where I can go, experience what I can experience.
My mother takes a week at a time share every year and wants all of us to meet up there. I have gone to it several times and it drives me crazy. They don't do anything at all. They just sit around by the swimming pool all day and eat or go inside and watch stupid TV.. I want to try out local hikes of maybe rent a bike and no one else wants to.
They just sit there by the pool all day and won't even consider doing anything that takes them away from the plugged in world or can be done without being driven around in a tour bus.
If that is all they do on vacation why don't they just stay home and do those things? Eventually I quit going to those get-togethers altogether because I felt like I had wasted my whole vacation.