In case you cannot tell by now, I am obsessive about managing my vacation time. With a little bit of creativity I can take more trips than the average person, and that’s what I intend to do. Of course, 2021, like the year before it, was not normal.

As I’ve described before, I am the ultimate hoarder of vacation time, using every legal and ethical hack in the book to make what I’m granted go as far as possible. Of course, 2020 was a challenge to anyone looking to maximize vacation. On the one hand, we had forces preventing us from going anywhere (and I hate the idea of a “staycation”), but we needed the release more than ever.

Unless you are retired, or unemployed, or have a massive trust fund, then you probably have a finite amount of vacation time each year. Whether it’s two weeks, or three, or four, or more, it never seems to be enough to accomplish everything that would otherwise be possible.