While I flat-out refuse to believe that its been a full year since Rob and I embarked on our excellent adventure, our travels have been on my mind a lot lately. A whole L-O-T. I want to go back. Now. Right now.
A random mishmash of memories that have slammed into my frontal cortex over the last few days (which will likely mean squat to anyone but me...whatever):
- waking up to absolutely zero watts of power on the January 24, 2009 and dragging a sick boy through two airports, only to arrive in Mexico and realize "oh shhh, I have NO idea where we will be going/living/are..."
- the first tacos we demolished at Felix Tacos in Mexico...the initial trip to the grocery store...pet store monkeys...the tiny green taxicabs
- huffing and puffing during the climb up the Eiffel Tower, where Rob scored the three of us a prime viewing spot for a terrific sunset
- Finnegan's Wake sung loudly plus real Guinness in a rowdy Dublin pub on March 17
- getting snowed on during a jog in Prague (which began under clear and sunny skies) (sidenote: why did I bother to exercise? climbing 113 stairs should have been enough!)
- Budapest - wandering the streets, the baths, the mind-blowing falafels, the random guy with the pet falcon
- the guy fiddling with Rob's suitcase lock on the train, and the scent of the spice market in Istanbul
- eating gelato in the rain while dragging a suitcase and attempting to find our teeny tiny hotel on the crooked, unmarked Venice streets (Rob = map-champ)
- doing the touristy bus thing in London and spending a bit more time in a pub than intended the eve of a umpteen-hour flight back to the States
So many more...but as I type one, it leads to a completely different memory. I'm looking forward to revisiting posts on my blog on each post's year-anniversary. I'm not looking forward to how bummed I'll be to be sitting in my little gray cubicle while I do so...
To my travel buddy: where shall we go next?! : ]
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it's a drug habit without the social stigma. it does have all the other attributes... the craving is always on your mind... it takes up all your cash... and it's never enough. glad you have joined the club.
ReplyDeletetry to get by with little doses along the way and start planning the next big one.
either that or it's the twelve step program.
1. start reading books about disease and poverty across the world
2. listen to the travel channel with the volume painfully and annoyingly loud.
3. watch the depressing decline of the dollar on the financial shows. it's not going to get better.
4. go sit in airport security lines just for the 'fun of it'.
5. live out of a just a suitcase worth of clothes for a month. no washing other than in the sink.
6. use only public transportation. use the alternate spanish or korean translations of the maps.
7. go to target and pay two or three times the price for any over the counter medications.
8. pay who ever happens to be in a restroom with you.
9. deliberately take multiple wrong turns on the way to an important appointment. then ask a complete stranger to be hostile, rude and wrong in giving you directions.
10. forgo watching any tv show that you follow. watch foreign language broadcasts only.
11. spend a couple of days with your ipod only playing foreign language podcasts in you ears. all day. particularly when ordering food. then ride on a bus.
12. whenever you order food or drink order something that you didn't want. give yourself the runs afterwards.
guaranteed... 12 step program... real results.