Unplug and recahrge

I recently returned from an 11-day vacation in Costa Rica with my husband. This was a real vacation. No computers. No cell phones. No plans for spiritual or work retreats. There was no one to meet and nothing to do but play for 11 days. I was so looking forward to it that I wasn’t expecting what happened two days into the trip.

The first two days were heaven. Still, there were work residuals, like walking into the hotel room and immediately wanting to check my email messages, or at least recharge my cell phone. However, being media deficient was easier to get over than I expected. In fact when three days into the trip we did stay at a hotel that had a computer for us to use, we shied away. We looked at the computer, looked at each other, crinkled our noses and said,