Comments on: Friday miscellany: Many logistics

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 22:22:27 +0000

I’m a bit late to the commenting on this post but I’ve been thinking of it often in the (almost) month since it ran. Yes, please do write (or speak) more about planning fatigue. I think I suffer from it on a somewhat regular basis…it’s the combination of both the must-dos and the fun/want-to-dos that simply will not happen unless I do the planning. I often feel as though by the time we get to the planned for/anticipated event I look up and there is already something else ahead that must be planned for! It’s relentless!

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Wed, 08 May 2019 15:07:50 +0000

In reply to Suzanne D’Cruz.

@Suzanne – you are in luck! We address this in a Q&A segment in an upcoming (like a month from now) episode. Definitely planner fatigue exists and it’s hard to enjoy stuff when you’re constantly thinking about the next stuff. But I think it’s still possible. More to come on that!

By: Suzanne D'Cruz

Suzanne D'Cruz — Wed, 08 May 2019 10:44:00 +0000

Hi Laura, please can we have a podcast on planning fatigue! Ive been taking on board the suggestions from the before Breakfast and BoBW podcasts. But i am noticing i am struggling to relax because i constantly need to plan and I am feeling a little burntout by planning because the planning cant stop….there’s the constant logistics and mouths to feed

By: Kaitlin Morrison

Kaitlin Morrison — Fri, 03 May 2019 23:33:25 +0000

Thank you. I turned to your blog for inspiration and once again you’ve helped me feel better about the “busy” in my life. Right now I’m sitting in a rented guesthouse on the grounds of an event venue I booked for a graduation party I planned for my sister. I’m having a mini-meltdown. I drove a baby three hours to get here, I’m preparing for a conference in another state that I’m on the planning committee of, and I’m handing over the kid to the grandparents after this party and jumping on a plane for a long flight and conference week. Holy moly. I knew this weekend and upcoming week would be packed with work and conference travel, but I also knew this party would be a chance to make memories for my sister and my family, so I chose this. But I’m also planning in downtime. And I know June will be a bit slower and more restful. And then I’ll have all this to remember and savor. I have to keep thinking about that.

By: Rinna

Rinna — Fri, 03 May 2019 22:06:34 +0000

Sounds like a great vacation. Although I am generally a planner, I just don’t like to have to plan so far ahead on things and prefer to leave myself more wiggle room to be slightly more spontaneous on vacation/fun plans, so I’ve accepted that there will be some experiences (like French Laundry) that I just won’t experience. There is literally not a restaurant on earth for which I would be willing to jump through any kind of major hoops. Admittedly, though, I have been very influenced by my parents, who grew up in the Soviet Union and had to regularly wait in line for bread. After moving to Canada, my mother promised herself she’d never wait in line for food (or much of anything else again). I guess I absorbed this feeling by osmosis 🙂

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 03 May 2019 22:04:20 +0000

In reply to Laura Vanderkam. Yup, supposedly something like 60% of the U.S. population lives within a day's drive of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

By: SHU

SHU — Fri, 03 May 2019 19:40:42 +0000

OHH, French Laundry reservations are notoriously hard to get even with perfect on the dot planning! I remember trying the OpenTable at the moment they opened, and then something about repeatedly calling evey single day at 12:00?! We ended up getting a lunch reservation through our hotel concierge (same meal/price as dinner) on our actual anniversary there in 2016 and it was a good thing we didn’t do dinner b/c there was enough wine consumed that we needed to take a nap in a nearby park before driving home. HA!

It was freaking amazing and I would totally go back again someday.

By: Cb

Cb — Fri, 03 May 2019 18:17:43 +0000

A California park worth checking out is Big Trees. The apple cider donuts at a nearby cafe are worth the trip alone – we went when I was 8 weeks pregnant and I was sick as a dog but could manage donuts. We went a few years back and it was lovely!

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Fri, 03 May 2019 18:16:33 +0000

In reply to Brooke Kent.

@Brooke – an addendum – I would not have pegged Great Smoky Mountain National Park as being the top visited, but I guess it is close to population centers in a way that a place like Yellowstone just isn’t.

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Fri, 03 May 2019 16:28:33 +0000

In reply to Brooke Kent.

@Brooke – oh my goodness, this comment has power law distributions and national parks. This is why I blog 🙂 I am so happy right now.

You’re right that looking for lesser-known parks that are in the same general region (and hence probably have a lot of the same stuff) is smart. When we stayed at Old Faithful Inn last summer, we needed to book 15 months ahead. Probably less so for the vast majority of places!