Travel agent
My spare time this week was spent playing travel agent - that’s why there have been no blog updates! Most every evening I was computering away, looking for cheap hotels and looking up things to do. I don’t like to post to my blog the details of trips I plan before I take them - never know what kind of burglars like to read blogs - so you’ll have to wait until after we take the trips to hear what I’ve been busy planning :P
I’ve decided that playing travel agent is definitely a hobby I enjoy. At first I thought that the fun was related to the planning bit - no comments from the peanut gallery on my planning fetish, please - but in thinking more about it, I think what I like is the orientation bit. You all know I have no sense of direction or spatial orientation whatsoever. (I mean, how many people can have 3 concussions within 3 weeks?!) When I plan trips, the thing I like doing is seeing how the city or area is laid out, on which roads or trains or subways we’ll travel, and visualize how we will move through the place(s) we are going to visit. I like to first look up where all the things are I want to go to, and then look for a hotel in the right area, and figure out how we will get from the hotel to the other things - can we walk? Will it have to be subway? What’s the most convenient place for hotel? When can we best go where? It’s all about orienting myself in the space.
Somehow, doing all this in advance really pays off when I actually take a trip, and makes the city come alive - because I know in my head where I am spatially in the area we’re visiting. When I don’t do this kind of orientation planning in advance - and Tim plays navigator on the spot - I more easily forget the things we’ve done or exactly where we’ve been - because I never understood how we got there or left there in the first place! I’m really looking forward to our trips, I don’t think I even need the maps anymore!
on March 15th, 2007 at 22:58
Ok, while you’re at it, you now have permission to plan our honeymoon. :p
on March 16th, 2007 at 18:56
Okay! Where do you want to go? :)
on March 19th, 2007 at 13:26
you know, my wife planned our honeymoon and it turned out pretty good. she has no sense of direction either. but in planning it out months beforehand, she enjoyed it immensely. I, on the other hand, would have been just as happy backpacking it and just wandering the mountains of colorado. instead, we spent 2 weeks in a furnished condo, skiing for 7 days (won’t do that again). It was exhausting. it was woosh woosh on snow all day, and whoopy whoopy by the fireplace all night. i was so sore by the time our vacation was over; my feet hurt, my legs hurt, my arms hurt, i was dehydrated. ohh such great times.
on April 7th, 2007 at 20:30
Dear Dutch princess living in Germany: I have a business meeting in Paris on 3 July. My wife & I would like our 18 yr old son to see GENESIS live in their reunion concert tour with us within a week before or after that date. Cd we pay you a fee to help us find tickets? Everything is officially sold out. Thks from Houston, Lee. PS: I did my military service in Mannheim from 71-73 and learned Pfaelzisch!