Bodega Bay Trip
Jul. 26th, 2021 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofgloryI just got back form Bodega Bay yesterday. My parents rented a big house for themselves, my family and my siblings. It was very nice of them but it was a rather stressful trip.
Things where arranged so I could not get much quite or privacy. The house had an open floor plan, so that all the public rooms and the kitchen where one giant room, and with so many people in the house someone was always in that room taking or watching something. I was sharing a small room with both R and the kid, but even when the room was free the sound form the great room traveled and it wasn't actually a quite place to sit. I ended up struggling with sensory overload by the last day.
The house was also in one of those annoying subdivisions full cul-de-sacs and lacking in sidewalks. Plus even though all the houses where in fact a bit different form each other they all felt very samey which made getting around confusing.
In contrast to the built enviroment the natural enviroment was lovely. We where able to walk to the beach. There was a rip tide so we couldn't get in the water but it was still lovely to walk along the beach. I spent one morning with my kid walking along and looking for tide pools. We saw sea anemones, sea stars, barnacles and muscles.
There where other things I liked about the trip too. The house had really well equited kitchen which is uncommon for that kind of thing. R and I made Chinese food for everyone for dinner one night which was fun. We played a lot of board games. My kid loved spending time with family especially her cousin. So it wasn't a bad trip, but it was a lot and I need some time to sit quietly by myself to recover.
Things where arranged so I could not get much quite or privacy. The house had an open floor plan, so that all the public rooms and the kitchen where one giant room, and with so many people in the house someone was always in that room taking or watching something. I was sharing a small room with both R and the kid, but even when the room was free the sound form the great room traveled and it wasn't actually a quite place to sit. I ended up struggling with sensory overload by the last day.
The house was also in one of those annoying subdivisions full cul-de-sacs and lacking in sidewalks. Plus even though all the houses where in fact a bit different form each other they all felt very samey which made getting around confusing.
In contrast to the built enviroment the natural enviroment was lovely. We where able to walk to the beach. There was a rip tide so we couldn't get in the water but it was still lovely to walk along the beach. I spent one morning with my kid walking along and looking for tide pools. We saw sea anemones, sea stars, barnacles and muscles.
There where other things I liked about the trip too. The house had really well equited kitchen which is uncommon for that kind of thing. R and I made Chinese food for everyone for dinner one night which was fun. We played a lot of board games. My kid loved spending time with family especially her cousin. So it wasn't a bad trip, but it was a lot and I need some time to sit quietly by myself to recover.
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Date: 2021-07-26 07:37 pm (UTC)I don't cope unless I have a dedicated bedroom that I can retreat to, which no one has access to except myself and my partner.
Many years ago - before 2010 - back when I was physically healthy
I booked and paid for a hotel room at a convention which was being held in a city which I lived in [my house was about 3.4 kilometres or 2.1 miles away from the convention] because I needed a safe quiet space I could retreat to during the day to drink water or eat a sandwich or read a book.
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Date: 2021-07-26 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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