In the Footsteps of Velvet Escape…We’re Taking a Break
See you in a few Days!
It is the long weekend here in Canada and we thought what better time to take a few days off from the website.
We were inspired earlier this summer by Keith at Velvet Escape. He disappeared for a few days. He didn’t tweet, facebook or blog. It is a difficult thing to do as a travel blogger, but sometimes it needs to be done. And we thought, if an excellent successful guy like Keith can take a few days off, we can too!
Well, Not Quite…
Dave and I are NOT going to the cottage or on a canoe trip to Algonquin Park. Unfortunately we won’t be camping in the wilderness or taking a weekend getaway. No we will be sequestered inside working on the upcoming events that are happening over the next few weeks.
Busy as Canadian Beavers!
Things have been really hairy this past month. We arrived back from St. Kitts and Dave went directly to work on a month long television pilot. One and a half weeks are finally over, but we have fallen gravely behind on many important tasks. I went out to work for him for two days and while it was a ton of fun! I didn’t get a lot of work done online.
Events
We are taking part in three speaking engagements starting this Wednesday. Two are multimedia slideshow presentations at Mountain Equipment Co-Op and Intrepid Travel that we need to edit, write and rehearse and one is the very popular Meet Plan Go an event taking place in 13 countries across Canada and the United States.
We have two photography tours to lead that we have to scout out, plan and market and we have some products to review and test drive. We have lunch meetings, dinner meetings, breakfast meeting and skype meetings to do.
Where will we find the time?
We think that if we take 3 whole days away from social marketing, writing blog posts and virtually unplugging from the Internet, we just may be able to come back from the long weekend refreshed, caught up and ready to take on the autumn months with renewed energy and enthusiasm.
So, to everyone, have an awesome Labour Day Weekend and we will see you next week!
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Have a great break!
I mostly don’t do tweet much over the weekend. 
.-= Amy @ The Q Family´s last blog ..Huntsville- AL With Kids- Caverns- Science and Rocket =-.
Good luck with all your planning for the future!
.-= Maria Staal´s last blog ..An Ebook What is that… =-.
Enjoy being disconnected … see you soon!
.-= Matt´s last blog ..The Gen Y Travel Blog Carnival- 3rd Edition =-.
Hope you guys are having a great time offline and getting refreshed to take on the world when you return! Good luck and enjoy!
.-= Audrey´s last blog ..Panorama of the Week- Sea Lion Party- Galapagos Islands =-.
Thanks Audrey. It was a very short break, but much needed. We had a lot of other work to catch up on and look forward to unplugging completely for a week or so in the near future.
A breath of fresh offline air is sooooo nice!
It was nice Anil. I didn’t tweet or facebook or look at the blog for 4 days. I had felt that our posts were getting stale and tired too. After a few days away, I woke up yesterday morning with all these ideas. It was awesome to have the time to catch up on the much needed work that had to be done too. Hopefully soon we will be able to completely unplug and be away from the computer for a few days too.
Hi D&D,
wow, I just read this post…a few days late I know and I’m very honoured to be mentioned as an example. Those 5 offline days were bliss and I’m sure you’ve experienced the same.
lots of hugs,
Keith
.-= Keith´s last blog ..Velvet moments- travel photo of the week – Quebrada de Las Conchas =-.
Just catching up myself! Hope that you guys were able to cram everything in and have some amazing presentations!
I think I need to take a page out of your book – to schedule in a break…instead of planning for one I got so behind I just and overwhlemed that I stopped doing it all for two weeks! Hugs and hope you are a bit more refreshed now!