Braving a heart attack to board a plane.

I think that what my life up to this point has been missing has been travel. When I was a kid, I was perfectly aware that there were people living near me that had never even left the county. Given the small size of the county, I found that unbelieveable, but assumed that everyone had their reasons - lack of transportation being one of them.

By the time I was six or seven we had taken all the standard family trips - to New York (where all the relatives lived) and back, to Connecticut (to a funeral), to Detroit (to a wack family reunion), to New York some more, to Florida (to meet Mickey Mouse with the church) - you get the drift. We never really went anywhere that required a great deal of planning.

(OH SHIT, I SHOULD GO GET A PEDICURE BEFORE THE SPA GETS CROWDED! Fuck it, I'll go tomorow.)

I'm not a girl with insatiable wanderlust - on any given day, I'd rather be home in mismatched pajamas sipping tea and working on some craft project it'll take me a year to finish. I guess now that I'm at an age where there's so many complications preventing me from travelling (work, young'un on the way), I just have more of a desire to do it. I never even went on one of those cheap spring break trips during college; I always had to work.

As much as I hate airplanes and what they do to my ears (left ear still haven't fully uncorked from Tampa trip), I want to fly to Vegas and walk the strip eating from a different buffet every meal. I want to walk around dusty old castles in England. I want to put my toes in the sand of a foreign beach.

I think that as soon as the sprout is old enough to sleep through the night, and I have at least a week's vacation accrued at the job after this job - a year and a half from now - I'm hopping on the first plane out of this country that I can get a cheap fare on. The older you get, the more it seems like the world is such a small place, and I just haven't seen any of it.

Scott, will you pay for my passport????

Posted by Tiffany at July 22, 2006 10:06 AM | TrackBack