On the plane last night on our way back from Thanksgiving in Chicago, I was watching a terrible movie about a woman who travels around the world to learn about love. And herself? And relationships. I nudged Matt, who chose wisely to become absorbed in Infinite Jest rather than letting his brain get sucked out by the tv, and asked if our trip needed a larger goal. He replied something like, “We have a goal, we’re going to interesting places. To see people. And the things they do.” I protested for a minute and then realized he was right. We’re just going to see some more of the world, because the timing was good right now, and we chose places we thought would be interesting. If the trip has a larger goal, it will find us.
We’re leaving in early January, but the trip really begins at the end of December when we leave Seattle to see my family in New York, and then travel down to California with a van full of artifacts (tune in later in December if you want to know what that is all about). So we’re coming down the home stretch now in facing the practicalities of storing our worldly possessions and planning the first leg of our trip. I’m excited to fit everything into a little storage pod and walk away from it.
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