Traveling Light(er)
Fri 19 Aug 2011 Filed in: My Life
I’m on the road again. Traveling is good, especially connecting with family and friends that I love. It’s a road trip this time, so I don’t have to contend with the hassles of airline travel. (Remember when flying was actually FUN? What happened?) There is the joy of people and the joy of the more-or-less open (under construction) road and the adventure of a GPS that thinks it knows more than it actually does.
For me the downside to travel is packing. The same DNA that helped me accumulate all that stuff in the basement that I am now starting to shed pushes me to pack more than I will ever need. This time I’m trying to travel lighter, and it is good. LightER; not really LIGHT. Yet. It’s a challenge for me to hear and believe me telling myself you won’t really need that. But I’m working on it. And for now, I’m on the road, and all I need to remember is to leave each spot with essentially the same stuff that I had when I arrived. And should I end up leaving a spot traveling lighter than when I arrived, it might not be all bad!
For me the downside to travel is packing. The same DNA that helped me accumulate all that stuff in the basement that I am now starting to shed pushes me to pack more than I will ever need. This time I’m trying to travel lighter, and it is good. LightER; not really LIGHT. Yet. It’s a challenge for me to hear and believe me telling myself you won’t really need that. But I’m working on it. And for now, I’m on the road, and all I need to remember is to leave each spot with essentially the same stuff that I had when I arrived. And should I end up leaving a spot traveling lighter than when I arrived, it might not be all bad!
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