THE: I would pay so much money just to be on a beach where I can get a lobster roll and take it away. That’s literally all I want to do.
MRS: My mouth just watered.
THE: Apart from going home to see my family. I just want this. My expectations have completely changed – and for me this is the most fabulous vacation right now.
MRS: I personally thought of all the little trips near home that I haven’t prioritized in the past few years because I wanted to do those bigger bucket list trips. I feel like so many of us go to places two hours away that we’ve always talked about and never bothered to go to. And that feels really exciting because it feels like there’s anticipation, it’s like something you wanted and now you can do it whether you’re camping nearby or doing something –
Whether you are camping nearby or taking a ride that you haven’t taken before, these destinations are very exciting to reach.
TM: There have been so many day and weekend trips that I’ve saved on Instagram, emailed to myself, and sent to friends over the years. I’ve never been to any of them. Now I ask, “Okay, let’s revisit some of these folders.” For example, “Oh yeah, that seemed cool. I saved it in 2017. Interesting.”
MRS: But then you have ideas now. I told Meredith and Lale about it, but I’ve tried to go on big, ambitious adventures here since I’ve had a bike. I live in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and I rode my bike to City Island in the Bronx because a friend posted photos of seafood there and I thought if I ride my bike it will be crazy, it will be a very long day. But it’s going to feel different than any other day I’ve had, and I don’t even have to leave town to get that feeling. I go, I do it. I was exhausted, but it was great. It was really an adventure. I’ve seen so much, and that doesn’t even have to mean leaving town.
MC: How far is that by bike for people who don’t live in New York City?
MRS: Oh how far is that That’s 25 miles each way.
MC: Great.
MRS: I think it’s important to know that I’m on a used bike from the 80s that I recently bought. I’m not very athletic and it was, yes, it was exhausting.
MC: But it was worth it.
MRS: But it was worth it and it just showed that in the past it would have been a nice thing to do with a car. But it was this challenge and this thing that really felt like an epic journey. It’s the best use of epic for me because it was just so dramatic and there was ups and downs and pain and drama and happiness.
It just showed that anything can be exciting if you change the formula a little. Again I think it’s time to go to that random place that you’ve always wanted to eat like a city. You can do it anywhere, you don’t have to live in New York City to do these things. But if you just change your frame up a little and get more into something that sounds a little wild, it’s really fun.
