Vacilando
I wrote about the Spanish concept of vacilando in this May 2007 post.
As New Years weekend nears to a bang, I am at a crossroads of emotions. For about three weeks, I’d planned to visit Quebec City. But that assumed a friend could join me for the trip. She just bailed. So, due to a combination of my friends either being unavailable this weekend or being unable to take off January 1st which is a paid holiday for me, and also due to the quainter B&Bs in the Old City being booked this weekend (for obvious reasons), I’m thinking of holding off on Quebec City until later in the year.
The reason I was aiming for QC in the first place was learning that 2008 will be the 400th anniversary of the city’s founding. I hadn’t visited it since 2001, so felt like returning to one of my top 3 favorite locations from that Great American Roadtrip. (The other two sites being San Diego and the general Black Hills of South Dakota, both of which are much father than Quebec.)
So, if not Quebec City, where? I suppose I could be vacilando and just go. The journey is more important than the destination, and knowing I just want to escape this weekend, should it matter that this is New Years weekend? Or treat it like any other extended weekend that I have off from work?
