Plan Your Down Time
In our modern world, too many people overlook the importance of recovery and down-time. Sleep, rest, and recovery are essential for everyone and it helps to plan this time into your week.
October 19th, 2025
In our modern world, too many people overlook the importance of recovery and down-time. Sleep, rest, and recovery are essential for everyone and it helps to plan this time into your week.
October 19th, 2025
Parents, business-owners, employees, and full-time travelers all have something in common...life can get a little (or a lot) hectic at times. How common is it for someone to reply "Good, just been really busy!" when asked how they are?
In the modern age of attention grabbing headlines, packed schedules, and over-ambitious hobbies, it is easy to forget to schedule your down time. This down time is crucial, however, for our minds and bodies to re-center and function at their best.
As full-time travelers, we run into this a lot. While road tripping from Newport, OR up to Mt. Hood, through Bend, into Crater Lake, and down to Santa Cruz, we rarely had a day to rest and recover. Now that we're in Santa Cruz, it's tempting to still be in that 'go-go-go' mindset.
For us, however, it is crucially important that we don't get burned out while living this life. That means intentionally slowing down when we can and setting time aside to hang out at home, pull down the shades, and watch some baking shows.
So we'll take this post as a reminder to ourselves (and maybe it will help you readers too), that it's not just okay to have some down days where you don't do much, but it's actually encouraged.
With this down time, you may very well end up trying out something new like learning to decorate a cake with fondant (surfboard cake pictured).