The Back Door Test: What We Think Will Happen When We Slide It Open in 19 Days
The Back Door Test: What We Think Will Happen When We Slide It Open in 19 Days
There are vacations where the room is just a place to sleep.
And then there are vacations where the room is the plan.
This one is firmly in the second category.
In nineteen days, we expect to open our back door and learn something important about ourselves: how quickly we forget winter, responsibility, and the concept of “inside.”
This blog is not about guarantees. It’s about expectations. Hopeful ones. Slightly unreasonable ones. The kind you earn after a Michigan winter.
Expectation #1: The Door Changes the Day Immediately
We expect that first slide of the door to reset the clock.
Not metaphorically. Physically.
Inside: normal voices, normal posture, a faint memory of emails.
Outside: water sounds, palm shadows, and the immediate downgrade of all priorities.
We expect to stop mid-sentence.
We expect one of us to say, “Oh. Yeah. This was the right choice.”
Expectation #2: The Pool Is Not “The Pool”
This is not a pool.
This is a decision shortcut.
Want to cool off? Two steps.
Want to float and stare at nothing? Also two steps.
Want to sit with your feet in the water like a philosopher who solved everything except where they left their drink? Two steps.
We expect the pool to quietly erase schedules.
We expect time to get fuzzy in the best way.
Expectation #3: The Tub Is a Separate Mood Entirely
The tub is not for swimming.
It’s for slowing down on purpose.
We expect it to be used in the late afternoon, when the light softens and the air stops trying to prove a point.
We expect conversations to stretch.
We expect silence to feel earned instead of awkward.
This is not luxury as excess.
It’s luxury as pause.
Expectation #4: The Furniture Becomes a Lifestyle
Those chairs outside? They are not decorative.
- Coffee that lasts longer than it should
- Drinks that get set down and forgotten
- At least one moment where we both sit there doing absolutely nothing and feel oddly accomplished
No scrolling urgency.
No “we should really.”
Just sitting like people who finally showed up on time for themselves.
Expectation #5: The Back Door Becomes the Front Door
We expect to stop using the room the “correct” way.
Inside becomes storage.
Outside becomes living.
We expect shoes to stay off.
We expect towels to migrate.
We expect the line between “room” and “resort” to blur until it stops mattering.
Expectation #6: The First Morning Is the Proof
The real test happens the first morning.
We expect to wake up, hesitate for half a second, and then go straight for the door—barefoot, unprepared, completely correct.
No phones.
No plan.
Just water, light, and the quiet confidence that this day already knows what it’s doing.
The Unspoken Expectation
Here’s the one we don’t say out loud:
We expect this back door to remind us why we planned this at all.
Not for photos.
Not for bragging rights.
But for the feeling of being done deciding for a while.
If we open that door and the world feels smaller, softer, and less demanding—even for a few minutes—then it worked.
And we’re counting down the days until we find out.
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