Vacation Ideas … Are You Looking for Extraordinary Different Ones?
4 min readJan 20, 2020
Do you enjoy traveling and experiencing new places on vacation? Always on the lookout for extraordinary vacation ideas?
In 1940, an advertising executive named James Webb Young published a short guide titled, A Technique for Producing Ideas.
Young believed the process of creative connection always occurred in five steps. Gather new material. At first, you learn. During this stage you focus on 1) learning specific material directly related to your task and 2) learning general material by becoming fascinated with a wide range of concepts. Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind.
During this stage, you examine what you have learned by looking at the facts from different angles and experimenting with fitting various ideas together. Step away from the problem.
Next, you put the problem completely out of your mind and go do something else that excites you and energizes you. Let your idea return to you. At some point, but only after you have stopped thinking about it, your idea will come back to you with a flash of insight and renewed energy.
Shape and develop your idea based on feedback. For any idea to succeed, you must release it out into the world, submit it to criticism, and adapt it as needed.
If so, keep reading as I will offer four idea recommendations and vacation ideas for you to ponder:
Visiting Charlottesville Virginia and Thomas Jefferson
Do you feel that traveling enhances your continuous learning and curiosity? Perhaps visiting Charlottesville, Virginia and Thomas Jefferson will help you in this answer. Let me elaborate.
I am at the end of my third career now, so it has been a few years since my college days. But I spent 8+ years as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
And traveling has always been a favorite thing to do for myself and my family. And we have returned to Charlottesville on several occasions. It is a very special place to visit and learn many interesting things.
Yes, it has changed significantly since my college days. And those changes have made it even better as a travel location. Let me tell you the places and things that make Charlottesville and Thomas Jefferson so special.
Touring the Thousand Islands of New York and Canada
Are you always on the lookout for a new weekend getaway experience? My wife and I semi-retired about 4 years ago and weekend getaways, especially places we haven’t seen, are always a priority with us. Recently we had an excellent long weekend touring the Thousand Islands.
Related: Favorite Towns on the Finger Lakes for a Weekend Getaway
Have you ever visited this area? We totally enjoyed our 3-day visit and highly recommend it to others. Let me explain why.
The Beaches of Florida’s Space Coast
Stretching 72 miles along Florida’s East Coast, the Space Coast continues to enliven, entertain, and inspire more and more visitors each year. While the Space Coast area of Florida’s East Coast is known as the home of America’s space program, Orlando’s closest beaches and some of the best surfing in the country, this is only a taste of what this area has to offer.
