My husband and I are planning to take a sabbatical for a couple of months.<p>We've been researching around for interesting things to do and I got really curious what would HNers do if they went on a sabbatical from work.
I would:<p>- Play an obscene amount of video games. I have a huge backlog in my Steam/Origin libraries.<p>- Spend as much time as possible with my wife. Easy to do as we both love games.<p>- Start and maybe finish a side project that's been rolling around for a while.<p>- Visit my family and friends back in Ohio.<p>- Maybe drive to Vegas. I've only been there once. I've never driven that way west, either.<p>So really nothing that I wouldn't ordinarily do outside of the travel. I am a simple man with simple tastes :-)
Travel both the country and as much of the world as I could afford.
Visit all the friends that I don't see very often.
Make a real effort to read all those books I havent yet read.
Live completely off-grid for a year (or at least for a summer). I understand there are so many lakes in Canada that you can get flown to one and have it all to yourself for an entire summer of camping, fishing, whatever.
Go deep in one of my specialties, or start on an entirely new field, depending on what I'd plan to do next in my career.<p>(At least where I'm from, a "sabbatical" is not a do-nothing-holiday.)
Spend a year "deep learning" Tai Chi in China (I live in India), @ 6 hours+ of practice a day, something that can't be done alongside a normal work life.<p>I am planning few weeks of such immersion, but I'd love to do it for a full year.