I have a lot of people ask me what I do on work trips to keep me busy. Well, some trips are nicer than others. On this particular trip, we get to stay in a cottage on the grounds of a historical tourist place. They host numerous events here like weddings, meetings, family reunions, etc. They have a lovely flock of peacocks. I have become quite good friends with one in particular. We were here 3 years ago, and I met him. I named him Petey. He loved hanging out with me every day and would eat out of my hand. He roosted on top of our cottage or the arbor over the walkway. Fast forward 3 years and we are in the same routine again. He literally recognized me when we got here. He has been with me every day since.
Everywhere we go, I try to make it look like home. This is just part of my nature. My homemaking doesn't stop just because we are not home. I clean wherever we go. I don't care if it is a hotel where cleaning services are available. I do not trust anyone. I clean like I clean at home. DEEPCLEAN. The first thing I do is clean a room or place down as soon as I can. It makes me feel better.
No matter where we go, I always bring things with me to keep me busy. Of course, I have my computer so I can blog and my video equipment so I can keep creating videos for our YouTube channel. I bring my sewing machines and projects to work on. This has passed a lot of time for me. I bring books to read or something I am doing research on. When I feel the need to get out, I find local places to go like a park, lake, museum, historical places, etc. I will take a picnic lunch sometimes. If I am in a place there is no entertainment or too far away, this is when the things that I bring, come in really handy. My husband teases me all the time because my truck is so packed but he understands. He does not expect me to sit somewhere and be absolutely bored.
We wake up together and have coffee together before he has to get ready for work. When he comes home, we eat together; sometimes, it depends on when he gets off and how hungry I am before he gets home. We watch tv together before it is time for bed.
Oh, lest we not forget. I have to do the meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking all our meals. We do not eat out all the time while traveling for many reasons. For one, it gets expensive. Then there are a lot of things he can't eat. And I guess I just like to cook. I make all his breakfasts, lunches, and our evening meals. He leaves so early for work that he doesn't want to stop and grab breakfast. The lunches at work are not so appetizing, and he gets off so late that he just doesn't want to stop again. He just wants to get home. And why would I not cook? I am here all day. So why not? My meal planning and grocery shopping are totally different when we are on a work trip versus when we are at home. We grow a lot of our own food so I can't just go grab something from our freezers. I hate that but it is what it is. We just try to budget for our groceries weekly. I get a lot of people asking me how I cook in a hotel room. Well, I have a whole playlist of videos dedicated to Hotel Cooking. I have to get creative. I always bring a fold-up table with me. I have a big box full of kitchen essentials that holds my air fryer and instant pot. I now have added an electric skillet to it. If I am in a hotel, the first thing I do is rearrange furniture to fit everything comfortably and be able to maneuver. I have to make things easy for me. Some hotels have more in them than others. Some, I am lucky to get a mini stove and oven and dishwasher. Some others, not so much. Some have a big refrigerator, so I make fewer grocery trips; some have an itty bitty dorm room fridge. I will link my Hotel Cooking Playlist below if you want to check it out. Some places we go to work it is not that far away, so I can make a few trips home and come back. If I have a big refrigerator and I make a trip home, I will stock a cooler with food from our freezer and bring back with me. This helps so much on the grocery budget. I actually practice making a lot of different kinds of meals and then when we get home, I incorporate our frozen harvests in those meals. It helps me to come up with ways to use our garden produce in our freezers that we grow. There are times when we might have a date night still and go out to eat somewhere and find a good local restaurant recommended by some coworkers.
If you are interested in more on Meal Planning and how I do this for home and work trips, I will link my Meal Planning playlist below also.
Used some of my rendered lard last night to make cornbread. It was delicious 😋
This is about what all I do on work trips. Besides the fact that I spend some time longing for home. But this is the way dear hubby provides for our living and if it helps him by me traveling with him, then so be it.
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