“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” ~ Mark Twain

I am in a travel prepping mode with 3 trips to plan this summer and I've just submitted my official 2011 request for vacation. Now I have to wait. Wait until my request is approved and the waiting is pretty much killing me. So to be proactive I have been a keener looking up websites, trying to establish where I will need to be, how I will get there...wondering what is nearby, is this the best hotel? I just had the foolish thought that it would just be so much easier if I could just travel there before the concert to check it out. Then I rolled my eyes at myself.

I will admit I am just a bit over-the-top excited about my trips this summer...I could use the word elated...but that just does not sum it up...more like ridiculous. I am excited to get on planes, see new places I have wanted to visit my whole life, meet new people, see old friends, visit new friends, wring some adventure out of life...oh and see U2.

Now I find great things in all these amazing cities and have to stop myself from booking them and just WAIT.
I do not possess the virtue of patience.

*taps pen*
*waits*

Song Du Jour: Boy by Ra Ra Riot

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without" ~ Ernest Hemingway

Well Hello 2011.

I am hoping for more blue skies this year and not in some fanciful figurative way, no, just literal and mundane weather talk here. Currently my city is blanketed in snow piles so high it feels surreal like we are on a movie set. It sure looks like a winter wonderland and I keep getting caught up in its beauty and have to smile and give a little sigh. Today for about 15 minutes the sun came out from behind the grey, it washed over the stark and cold landscape and cheered the place up! When I walk around my neighbourhood I find the sight of the drooping trees, branches laden with heaping white mounds, very beautiful. It's like everything is frozen in some beautiful postcard except I have to drive to work in it every day and carry on like the city is not limping along with only one lane open.

Of course, there are more important things to discuss than the weather; like Tunisia or Sudan where politics and freedom (and nation building) are at war. I am riveted to the events in those countries and struck by the way 2011 has already started with a brash notion of hope. For those who dare to hope I wish you plenty of blue skies too!

Song Du Jour: Do You Love Me - Guster