grateful for travel

// July 20th, 2008 // Life

I can hardly sit still long enough to write this entry — today FunkyPlaid and I bought our tickets for our trip to Scotland this autumn!  We will be there for just over two weeks, and it will be my first time in Scotland.  FunkyPlaid lived there while he earned his graduate degree in Scottish history, and he has been there many times, so I will have an excellent guide.  My visit to Scotland is also laced with emotional symbolism; FunkyPlaid and I spent two rollercoaster months getting to know each other before he moved to Edinburgh, and I was more than a little envious of his big adventure.  Existing in Edinburgh with him will bring that part of our history full-circle.  It will also be a litmus test to see if I can stand to live there in the future when FunkyPlaid moves back for his doctorate, although truthfully I can stick it out anywhere for a few years.

I am so grateful for the ability to and predilection for travel.  Ever since I was born, my parents instilled in me a great love of seeing new places which has only grown.  Today at a gathering of friends at the Palace of Fine Arts, someone was talking about visiting Zanzibar, and I immediately thrilled at the thought of being there someday myself.  I hope to get to see as many places on my long, long list as possible.

(This entry is part of one month of gratitude.)

6 Responses to “grateful for travel”

  1. seth says:
    21 July 2008 at 03:44

    excellent. you’ll have to let us know your exact dates and times of arrival and departure…

    (…so we know when to be out of the country :)

  2. Wendy says:
    21 July 2008 at 06:43

    Yay for Scotland! If you drive by the Guthrie Castle, will you take a picture for me?

  3. steph says:
    21 July 2008 at 10:09

    Delurking to say: wow, Scotland! It has been at the top of my list for years, and hopefully I will get to go next year. Enjoy your trip. I, too, have the wanderlust, and yet, I can’t seem to ever get away.

    Also, FunkyPlaid totally looks like a photobomber in that last pic. =:-o

    Also also, so nice to see how happy you are together. :)

  4. Ighnot says:
    21 July 2008 at 16:43

    Wow, I envy you both. Scotland is one place I never got to when I was living in Germany from 2000-2004, and I have Scottish ancestry, so it’s still high on my list today. I’ll definitely keep tabs on your trip and hope for lots of updates and pics. Enjoy yourselves and be safe!

    John (Ighnot)

  5. Eyebee says:
    23 July 2008 at 17:40

    I was last in Scotland in 2003, for a long weekend. Most of it was spent exploring the north coast, and the north west highlands. The highlands remind me of a miniature California in many ways.

    You can see a few of the photographs I took in my Flickr…
    http://flickr.com/photos/eyebee/sets/72057594133960852/

  6. minim says:
    13 August 2008 at 10:27

    i have heard nothing but good things of edinburgh, and i think last year it was voted best city in the uk or something. can’t wait to visit it myself, and it sounds like it’ll be a grand trip for you two!