As I often do, last night in the dark I reached for my iPhone and flicked the screen to bring up my Facebook newsfeed. With friends in all time zones, I always find some news popping up and as I lay in bed I read Richard Frisbie’s reports from Venice. I was scheduled to be on that trip but I found a friend to fill in, and I couldn’t be happier.
That’s a funny sort of quandry that frequent travelers go through. Getting out of a free trip to Venice? Hell yeah, I needed to get off the traveling roller coaster. Travel is all about the adventure, and the feeling that it’s time to fly. Sometimes, after you’ve just returned from a big trip, or feel the need to be close to home, it’s just not that time. I will never forget that feeling while I was trying to get to sleep in that tent in the desert of Chile….I had to get off the coaster.
So now I’ll read Cathie Arquilla’s blog about the trip to Venice, and read Frisbie’s FB updates and there won’t be a bone in my body that would make me wish I was there. But in the middle of November Cindy and I will take off on our own adventure to New Zealand’s South Island. By that time I’ll be ready to fly, with relish.
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