The Joy and Hassle of Traveling
Part One
Everyone likes and deserves a vacation, but sometimes, the work required before the vacation and the work required after a vacation sort of negates the rest and relaxation aspect of getting away.
There are definitely more than a hundred places that I would like to see before I die. The idea of seeing the Pyramids, the Coliseum, the Great Wall in China, or the World’s Largest Ball of Twine in Darwin, Minnesota or Cawker City, Kansas (both claim to have it), is thrilling to me (well, not so much the twine). I have toured the Potato Museum in Blackfoot, Idaho and even met the mayor who was greeting people at the door. I have seen volcanoes erupt and glaciers calve, felt earthquakes in New Zealand, canoed down the Green River in the Canyonlands, walked along Hadrian’s wall, snorkeled at the Great Barrier reef, watched the Changing of the Guards at Buckingham Palace, seen geishas in Kyoto, Japan, petted whales, kissed the Blarney Stone, scoured the Smithsonian, swum with dolphins, and kayaked in four countries. When you list just of few of those adventures, it sounds wonderful, but there are more places to go and more things to do. (more…)