A (New) Mobile Home Office on the High Seas

Sitting on Deck Six aboard Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas, Nicole is immersed in Twilight, the first in Stephenie Meyer’s vampire / fantasy series.

We’ve been at sea for four days, headed home tomorrow. I had all the tools to work from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, except one key ingredient: The Spirit.

I’ve long been chided for working from vacation. Heck, Home Office Highway was all about working while on vacation, or taking, as I coined it, a “workation.”

But this time, I needed no motivation. I got so caught up in relaxation and fun that I decided to avoid work altogether.

With Internet access running 55 cents a minute, the cost offered sufficient financial motivation to stay off the Web. But we also found ourselves so busy as to not afford me time to actually work. The cabin was cave-dark, so I tended to sleep past 7 am. The floating buffet that cruises are known to be kept my mouth, mind and gullet focused on something other than work — or anything else for that matter.

We dove, walked around Key West, ate more food, and generally kept ourselves busy — without much work at all.

We returned Monday, ready to work in my home office, and with a new perspective on yet another place to work. Mission accomplished…