Ideas Anyone? The Decision to Wander - AGAIN.
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 6:21PM For the past year, a vague sense of restlessness has been brewing in the Barone household.
This will not surprise those who know Hank and me. Nor is the itch to wander an unfamiliar one.
Nearly two decades ago we eloped during a 3-month vacation. In 1996 we packed up the Subaru and didn’t return home for more than a year. Fourteen months later, we moved 2,000-miles across the country to begin a new life. And, for the past decade we’ve divided our time between homes in Old and New Mexico.
So, while the decision to wander - again - might not be breaking news to outsiders, it did, at least for me, feel a bit like a bolt from the blue. As if I suddenly emerged from the rabbit hole with blinking eyes in the blinding light of a new world.
Perhaps it’s because life has been rather comfortable these past few years, ticking along at a creative clip, supported by good friends in an amazingly beautiful part of the world. So, why trade it for the unknown?
Oddly enough, it’s precisely the unknown that has us sitting up nights tossing ideas back and forth, too excited to sleep.
“What about an around-the-world cruise?” I find myself blurting out at 3AM.
“Uruguay sounds nice,” Hank says, nose buried in a South American guidebook over our morning cuppa.
“I wonder if the Four Seasons Bora Bora needs an in-house blogger,” I say, in full schemin’ and dreamin’ mode.
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