Will todays news of thwarted mass murder and horrible emotional lines at international airports deter you? Have you already canceled a flight? Are you in internal alert?
Three weeks til Labor Day and 4 weeks til the 5 year anniversay of 9/11. Has it affected your immediate travel plans?
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As a world traveler for 35+ years, she shares her personal stories, travel tips and dreams of future destinations.
"I have been reflecting on how almost all of my moments of true happiness and clarity of being have been while dipping into coastal waters: Santa Barbara East Beach as a towheaded child, Ovalau-Fiji on my first truly solo journey, Bondi Beach-Australia with the divine Meegan Adamson, Monaco with 30 brand new Contiki buddies, utterly alone on a vast beach on the north coast of New Zealand, cavorting in Key West with Laura, Cancun with some guy who was just as happy as I was just to be in the waves, Ipanema-Brazil with fireball Bia, Mancora-Peru with winsome Walter, Sanary-France with sultry Sandrine and much more - that I will give some time to float to the top of mind and get back to you.
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I was doing preliminary online searches for cheap flights and perusing the Sunday N.Y. Times Travel section hoping for a getaway – preferably back to Europe to visit with friends – and soon! It’s been four and a half months since my return to the States from Belize and my wanderlust had grown to the point of daily distraction, too. My next planned trip isn’t until late October for the Banff Film Festival and now I’m thinking I can hold off on any escapes until then. My thoughts go from, “Why bother when it’s going to be such a major hassle?” to the more rebellious, “I should fly now more than ever,” to the humbling recognition of how minor these inconveniences are considering that our country is at war. These consequences are just an extremely distant echo from the war zones. I feel grateful to at least be able to have a peaceful day and go about living my life locally without the interruption and disruption of bombs and with a sense still of exploration, adventure and discovery.