Because we are 100% freelancers who rely only on ourselves for our income, we don't have the luxury of taking a full unplugged vacation for a week or two and not thinking about work. So in lieu of that, we instead transplanted ourselves away from the work and made a conscious effort to make time with our people.
We landed in Calgary and had a return ticket booked for thirty days later, so every morning, we woke up at Toronto time to check emails and catch up (before anyone was awake). And then we went for a run with the dog, had breakfast with my parents, and then did more work at home. The afternoons and evenings consisted of coffees, lunches and dinners with friends, hikes and movies, Netflix and Katan; pretty much anything that involved our friends and family.
