"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
--Paul Theroux, travel writer
After an exhausting day, in which I drove 200 miles, and flew roughly 1200 more, Megan and I found ourselves in California on Friday. A day that started in Angola, Indiana, pitching an advertising campaign to a dentist, ended with me, Megan, Bobbi and Mom in Dad in our kitchen talking and eating chocolate-chip cookies. Modern life is certainly odd.
I think back to stories of how people even as late as a hundred years ago never traveled more than 25 -50 miles away from home. How different things must have been back then, when distance was a very real thing, and people who had traveled were rare. Short of going off to war, maybe some people didn't have t o travel. And, of course, I'm not ruling out the possiblity that there are still people who haven't traveled more than 25-50 mi. away from home, even in this day and age.
California, so far, has been a pastiche of mini-golf, air hockey, and really good food. Today, Megan and I will be going to Catholic Mass with my parents and sister, and then who knows what else is on the docket--probably seeing Revenge of the Sith, which my parents and sis haven't seen yet. It'll be our second time, but I'll be looking for a shot of George Lucas, who appears in the movie, as well as other little "Easter Eggs" that Lucas has hidden in the movie.
Take care, everybody.
Billy
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mmmm... vacation. my june vacation is now gone because i have to stick around to teach university, and my august vacation is at least partly in jeopardy because i may be starting a business. but then, i could have said no. i have been in the same place for almost two years. wow. must be time to branch out if i am not going to move out. so i am doing that. if everything falls apart in the next year, maybe i will go to boston. i hear there are some good people there.
Great to see you guys on Thursday! It was a pleasure vballing with you, and cooking on the run for you :-) Take care of yourselves, and come back to visit again soon!!!
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