Holiday travels come with an HVAC reprieve
It’s not that I’m a big humbug guy or anything like that.
In fact, I really love Christmas now that I’m with my wife.
When I was younger, I wasn’t so hip to Christmas. I grew up in a house that the Christmas hype was way over the top. My mom was just sort of crazy when it came to Christmas. And being that there was no dad around, I was the one who had to do all the labor when it came to all the decorating. My mom sat in the HVAC heating and simply directed my efforts. That sort of left a bad taste in my mouth when it came to Christmas. But with my wife, I’ve enjoyed a more simple Christmas with decorations that I also have input on. Yet, there is one part that I just could do without. That would be the traveling up north to visit her family. We live in a region where the heat pump hardly comes on for HVAC heating during the winter. So going north comes with a bunch of cold and thermostats that I have no control over. We normally go from one place to another to visit everyone. Thankfully, this allows for an HVAC respite as we have to overnight a few times in a hotel. I make sure that it’s one of the hotels that has the big wall HVAC unit. Just having a night or two where we can have the sort of thermostat setting we want really helps. And those wall HVAC units are just the best at making quick work of heating up our room for the night.