Here in Cleveland, we have winters that have cold and snow, not as much as others but usually it's cloudy and cold for about 3 months. The last 15 years or so we have chosen to get away for a few days in mid-winter to break up the monotony and prevent "cabin fever", all the more so this past year. Superbowl weekend is when we get away to a cabin in the woods near Hocking Hills OH. No phone, no cell service, no TV, no internet, no people, fairly remote. Hiking, antique stores, surplus stores, Rocky Boots in Nelsonville. It recharges us, gives us a chance to reflect, relax and helps when we actually get back to the world. You have to do it or bad things start to happen and you don't know why. March is a restored/updated log house near New Philadelphia OH.

Sounds healthy.

Do you get caught up on your reading? I've found I'm doing a lot more reading since I dumped Fauxbook. Social media presence is fairly low, even still.

The book I'm reading now is 900 pages long, I'm at page 750......no, I have not caught up. In fact, I just found ten or twelve books I was looking for recently. We will be taking books with us.

Cabin fever for me was settling in back in July. I'm streaming movies now I never would have sat still for a year ago. I am reading non fiction books mostly dealing with historical events. I'm currently reading a 784 page book on the Crusades - an event I never fully understood. For the most part becoming more knowledgeable about history makes me realize how dangerous the times are that we are now living in. 
Come January in Maine winter starts to drag. The sun at noon is low in the southern horizon. Springtime in Maine often passes unnoticed - cloudy cool weather that sometimes doesn't break until late May.
We also tried to get out of Dodge this time of year and use vacation leave we had accumulated to get reacquainted with warmth, the sun, and outdoor life.

A lot of people talk about "cabin fever", it's a funny term we all use, but as you know in the north, it's real, oh sure, we aren't going to go crazy and commit horrible things, but it's a sort of craziness that is unhealthy, mentally and physically. That's why spring is so wonderful. Hocking Hills, here we come!

A lot of people talk about "cabin fever", it's a funny term we all use, but as you know in the north, it's real, oh sure, we aren't going to go crazy and commit horrible things, but it's a sort of craziness that is unhealthy, mentally and physically. That's why spring is so wonderful. Hocking Hills, here we come!

 

funny....I grew up in SE Ohio.  went to college in Athens.  Never once thought of it as a good place to escape cabin fever in the winter. 

I highly recommend you keep heading south until you get to the keys! 

Hocking Hills has less population than Cleveland, I think it's more of getting away from Cleveland. No cell service, no TV, spotty radio, no internet. We would only on a rare occasion go to Athens for Jackie-O's brewery.

We stayed at a hotel on the Blue Ridge Parkway that had no cell service and no TV.   Nearly went mad.. 

I'm pretty much anti-social by nature so "cabin fever" doesn't affect me so much as most people.  This is a time for me to relax and avoid all the people I don't want to be around anyway (except my fiance).  I work in a factory that is deemed "essential", and they did a good job of separating the work stations, and we all wear masks, etc., so I'm still working and so far the pandemic has avoided me.  Actually it's been a pretty relaxing winter so far.

4 days in the woods does wonders for the soul. 2 inches of snow predicted for last Monday night, we woke to a true 12 inches of snow. It was above the front air dam on our little Ford Fiesta, which, I have snow tires on all 4 corners. 300 yds on snow over ice to the 1 1/2 lane wide county hilly dirt road, then another 4 miles to another county 2-lane, it was interesting, don't stop, keep going, pushing snow with the air dam which was coming up over the hood and windshield. I know it's weather but, I wish I could be that wrong that many times and still keep my job. It was nice to get away, will do it again in March at a restored log house.