It takes all kinds


  It takes all kinds and I'm the kind who travels. I love to travel. I love to go to new places. I love having something to look forward to. I revel in the countdown. I enjoy packing and guessing what things might be like. This morning I was just starting to wake up and I was already thinking so deeply about Cedar City. Going to Las Vegas and Cedar City will be like deja vu all over again. I heard something outside my window and I had to open my eye to figure out where I was. I wasn't sure if I was still in Costa Rica. My mind has been divided between four worlds. Being here in Samara. Being in all the places we will visit in the next two weeks. Being in Seattle, where I've never been before. And being in my book. I have these real worlds that swirl around in my head, and then the one I'm conjuring up and populating.
  I am at the point where I look at my bed and count how many sleeps I have left on it. I have been packed for a while now, because I want to be careful with every memory I pack. Every shirt is a memory. How did people do it before cameras? Now I can take 20 pictures and day and carry them with me everywhere I go. I remember as a kid there was maybe one guy with a camera, and you had to wait to see if the picture turned out, and get copies made. Life is so different now. Privacy is at an all time low and the next generation seems to embrace it. I miss my picture books. But there is a good side too. I make friends all over the world now. I just made a friend in Algeria the other day. Now I can keep in touch with all of them, and that's amazing.
  I am part of a group on Facebook and made friends with someone in January. She lives in Poland. I didn't know it at the time, but I ended up in Poland in May. I went to see her and she showed us around Warsaw and it was fantastic. Then I came back to Costa Rica and made another friend from the group. She is in France. I found out a month later that she is good friends with my friend from Poland, from before January.
  I'm working on relieving anxiety and having a more full life by living in the present. But the more I travel the more my brain  shifts back and forth. Short trips don't take much planning, but these big ones do. So my mind is in the future. Then I see things that remind of experiences from my past, and there go my thoughts again. I lived in Las Vegas for 20 years, I have a lot to remember starting with when I was 18 years old in 1989 and arriving for the first time. When we move to Seattle I will be a ferry ride away from where I spend my childhood. I can't wait.
  I have two treasure troves waiting for me. Whatever I put in storage a year ago, and whatever I put in storage when I was 19 and finally moved to Las Vegas. I will be looking at a clock and all of a sudden remember my watch that is waiting for me in a box, a gift from my husband. Something I really don't need here in the jungle, or on a beach.
Pura Vida, baby. Everything is about to change. It's a good thing I like change.



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