Back in business!
Travel has taken on quite a different meaning for me lately. Right now I write this from a train headed west at 3 in the morning, or is it 4?, and my whole equilibrium is out of whack. There’s times when I can romanticize traveling around the western half of the North American continent and times that I can’t. Even more so it seems to go in phases and I appear to be going from a “what did I get myself into phase” back into a “I’m cool with this” phase.
Life never really works out the way we want it to, but sometimes it comes around. Traveling for a living isn’t all glory and glamor, at the end of the day it’s still work. While I’m in no way sad about the decision I made to live this lifestyle, I am just as suceptable to “grass is greener” mentality as any other human. It would be nice to have a home to call my own, and wife and 2.5 children waiting for me at the end of the day, life has chosen otherwise for me and that’s not such a bad thing.
Some good things have happened lately. I’ve had a good “vacation” as of yet. I made a trip with my daughter, taking her from California to Utah and while we didn’t do anything all too exciting I have been learning that sometimes un-eventful trips are more of a blessing than they may seem. It was nice to go for a ride with my daughter, spend some free time with her to simply be together, and have nothing really all too exciting happen.
This summer will be a different story. We are in the planning stages still, but it looks like I will be accompanied by my daughter on a four to five week road trip that will encompass quite a few miles and many interesting things. The plan, at this point, is to fly into California and pick up my daughter, truck and camping gear, then make a big loop through Nevada, northern Arizona and Utah. Ideally I’m hoping to visit some family, see some sights and spend some quality time with my daughter. Being that she’s six years old now, I’m pretty sure that she will be able to comprehend what she’s going to be doing and I’m hoping it’s not going to be too hard on her. If my assumptions are correct, she’ll be just fine.
Another good thing that’s happened lately is I picked up a new laptop computer. This one with four times the memory and is literally half the size of my previous pc. It’s been a pretty big reason for my net-presence being so small lately. Unfortunately I dropped the last one and the monitor was never quite right anyways. So, now I’m back in business…..
