Last Hurrah?

Starting to wonder if my Vegas obsession is beginning to wane.

Doing another 4-trip year again, barring something dramatic happening at work or in life, but the laser-focus I had on Vegas-as-end-all-and-be-all of my vacation life is beginning to dull a bit. I still look forward to my trips, I'm certainly looking forward to next week, but I'm not as fevered as I used to be in say 2013 or 2014, where if I wasn't IN Vegas I was planning or thinking or dreaming about Vegas. Has Vegas become, dare I say, a little too routine?

If there's one thing that I'm realizing about my trips is, they really aren't very relaxing. I mean, I have fun while I'm there, but it's tiring and draining too. There's a lot of walking, dealing with crowds, drinking heavily, handling logistics. I come back from a Vegas trip generally tired out and needing a couple days to decompress and get over it, which I seldom have. I'm thankful that next week I'll at least have Sunday off before I have to go back to work.

I'm starting to think about maybe next year doing a classic "relaxation" vacation, which I've never taken. Going somewhere warm and sitting on a beach watching warm ocean waves and sipping a fucking Mai Tai. Some place semi-exotic, but still not requiring me to have passport, like Guam or the Virgin Islands. Being able to read a real book, sit doing nothing and be away from idiot people and flashing LED's and rampant consumerism as in Vegas might be a great re-charger.

The initial outlay might be steep, but most of these vaca's are more or less all-inclusive so I might not end up spending much more than a typical Vegas trip when you factor in not having to gamble or pay for food/drinks/etc.

I'm not going to have much (or any) vacation time built up at my work after this years' 15 or so days used, so maybe I'll skip my usual after-tax refund Vegas trip in Feb or March next year and save that money and a couple grand as well and just take off in April (birthday?) for a real, no bullshit vacation somewhere. I've been thinking about it for a while but always get sucked back into the Vegas cycle.

I'm not suggesting dropping Vegas altogether, just not going four damn times a year. One blowout, awesome beyond belief Vegas trip could change my perspective, but I haven't had any of those for a long while.

Maybe Vegas is telling me something.