ANTICIPATING

Brenda and I are getting very excited about our trip to New Mexico. I’ve been to AAA and gotten all the maps and tour guide books. Today I had the car washed and even had the leather cleaned inside so we could start fresh and sparkling. Part of the joy of traveling for me is the planning and anticipation. My father was this way and Brenda and I have inherited that gene.

We have decided to really be work horses the first day and try to get in 12-14 hours. But the neat thing about going with Brenda is we are so flexible that if one of us wants to stop earlier it will be ok with the other. If we do go that far, it will lighten the load for Saturday and we will reach Santa Fe earlier.

It’s tough to decide what clothes to take because NM has such varied weather. Up north where we are going first it looks pretty chilly, even snowy, but down in the southern part it’s warm. But we have plenty of room – we can just take all we want. What a difference from the way the family used to go, all packed to the hilt with everything.

At any rate, I really believe that Brenda and I will enjoy the ride, not just the getting there. Without waxing too poetic, isn’t that the way life should be? Shouldn’t we purposely seek to get pleasure from the journey as well as the destination? I can hear the family reading this now saying, “Good grief! She’s going to start teaching metaphors and similes next!”

As I mentioned before, I plan to make my blogs a travel journal and may even have pictures to share. The trick is to be able to get to the internet in order to put it on. So don’t give up on us.