My inner stressed introvert

This year, our main vacation—packed with trips, hikes, and socializing—took place near Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Austria, together with four friends (six of us in total). We take a trip like this every year, with whoever can make it—sometimes the group is bigger, and sometimes the lineup changes, but the six of us are the core of our friend group. Travel Day We arrived by car, giving us plenty of flexibility to explore as much as we wanted. The six-hour drive was—by now—an easy feat, since we’re used to long road trips (last year in Namibia, for example, we drove about 4,000 kilometers in just two weeks). We stopped for lunch at a lovely park just outside Munich—highly recommended. Like proper Central Europeans, we were prepared with our own lunch and had a little picnic there. Our accommodation was in a house in a village near a river, about 500 meters away. The house was large, suitable for 9–10 people, but with two bathrooms, it was perfect for our group of six (we originally ant...