a week from Saturday....
I leave for Europe in about 6 days. I'm happy. I will not be planning, emailing or working. I will be turning back into that girl who backpacked around Europe, by herself sometimes, with friends sometimes, exploring, seeing, watching, wondering and wandering. She did just fine back then, and when she began her journey, she didn't speak a word of Greek, Yugoslavian, Italian, or French. She still navigated new places, train schedules, street markets and museums and she made many new friends. I will find that girl again, I will.
I will leave "ye olde comfort zone" ( thanks to Sheila O'Malley) and set out for places I've never been to see people I've never seen, with someone I think I know (my daughter) and someone I'm still getting to know again (that would be me).
I will have croissants for breakfast, local cheese and wine whenever it is offered to me and chocolate at least once a day. I will see medieval villages and walk through prehistoric caves. I will drive through the countryside and probably get lost a bit. I will see the place where my Great Uncle William died during the Battle of the Bulge. I will stroll through Paris so well that people will think I live there. When they ask me a question and discover I'm not a Parisian after all, they will understand and we will talk about it all over chocolate and wine or some good leftbank couscous. I expect my adventure to have a bit of danger, frustration, too, they all do, it's still an adventure, a much needed one.
Time will go slow at first and then speed up and go way too fast the last few days. As vacations go, this will be my first extended one in a very very long time, actually, it will be the first since I took the the long road trip back to Texas with Annalise. (I'm not counting work trips, field trips or trips where I had to be on charge or on "good behavior".)
Gregor will be house sitting for me, along with the neighbors and the dogs and the cats. Gregor is one tough sumabitch, so all will be well and safe on my return.
I've completed 4 of the 5 books, done a rough edit of roadside, still much to do, but I'm closer...
I will leave "ye olde comfort zone" ( thanks to Sheila O'Malley) and set out for places I've never been to see people I've never seen, with someone I think I know (my daughter) and someone I'm still getting to know again (that would be me).
I will have croissants for breakfast, local cheese and wine whenever it is offered to me and chocolate at least once a day. I will see medieval villages and walk through prehistoric caves. I will drive through the countryside and probably get lost a bit. I will see the place where my Great Uncle William died during the Battle of the Bulge. I will stroll through Paris so well that people will think I live there. When they ask me a question and discover I'm not a Parisian after all, they will understand and we will talk about it all over chocolate and wine or some good leftbank couscous. I expect my adventure to have a bit of danger, frustration, too, they all do, it's still an adventure, a much needed one.
Time will go slow at first and then speed up and go way too fast the last few days. As vacations go, this will be my first extended one in a very very long time, actually, it will be the first since I took the the long road trip back to Texas with Annalise. (I'm not counting work trips, field trips or trips where I had to be on charge or on "good behavior".)
Gregor will be house sitting for me, along with the neighbors and the dogs and the cats. Gregor is one tough sumabitch, so all will be well and safe on my return.
I've completed 4 of the 5 books, done a rough edit of roadside, still much to do, but I'm closer...
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