Not packing my bags...
Mar. 7th, 2008 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI do wonder why, sometimes, I am so content right here in my living room. Normal people answer those 'if I have a bascilion dollars, I'd...' questions with travel answers. Normal people like going places and seeing and doing things. And then there's me.
I have been very lucky in my life to have gone a lot of places and seen a lot of things. I got to travel to Europe on one of the last of the old time ocean liners. I've been to most of the Caribbean Islands. I've been to New Zealand twice. I've lived in 10 of the United States and traveled to most of the others. I've seen the Corn Palace.
But I haven't seen everything. I haven't done everything. And, that's really ok with me.
I search psyche every once in a while to make sure I'm still happy staying put and always the answer is yes.
My one tiny caveat is that I might like to, one day, possibly go to one of the hot air balloon festivals in New Mexico. I've never seen New Mexico and I love watching hot air balloons. But, the desire is no where near strong enough to act on it.
Last night, I saw a thing on TV about a hot air balloon festival in Winthrop, Washington.
It was then that I knew my travel lust was in the negative.
This weekend they will have hot air balloons going up over SNOW!! And it's only 4 hours from here. I could drive there easily. They have lovely places to stay. The drive is one of the few that I would be interested in taking. It would take me less than an hour to make enough arrangements to go. I could be well on the road before noon.
Am I going? Nope. Inertia is strong. I'm happy here. I like it here. If someone came along and said 'let's go!', I might. Maybe. But, maybe not.
I have been very lucky in my life to have gone a lot of places and seen a lot of things. I got to travel to Europe on one of the last of the old time ocean liners. I've been to most of the Caribbean Islands. I've been to New Zealand twice. I've lived in 10 of the United States and traveled to most of the others. I've seen the Corn Palace.
But I haven't seen everything. I haven't done everything. And, that's really ok with me.
I search psyche every once in a while to make sure I'm still happy staying put and always the answer is yes.
My one tiny caveat is that I might like to, one day, possibly go to one of the hot air balloon festivals in New Mexico. I've never seen New Mexico and I love watching hot air balloons. But, the desire is no where near strong enough to act on it.
Last night, I saw a thing on TV about a hot air balloon festival in Winthrop, Washington.
It was then that I knew my travel lust was in the negative.
This weekend they will have hot air balloons going up over SNOW!! And it's only 4 hours from here. I could drive there easily. They have lovely places to stay. The drive is one of the few that I would be interested in taking. It would take me less than an hour to make enough arrangements to go. I could be well on the road before noon.
Am I going? Nope. Inertia is strong. I'm happy here. I like it here. If someone came along and said 'let's go!', I might. Maybe. But, maybe not.
