Almost A Year Ago..

I have to admit, I get the travel bug often. I don't mean the bug you usually get after a long flight with a ton of sneezing strangers (ooh! alliteration!). I mean the wish to take a vacation to someplace that will significantly change the way you listen to voices, accents, music, or the way you dress or taste food, wine, coffee. Its starts with a few visits to the Virgin Vacations website to peruse the London specials, then progresses to scheming about how little could I spend and still get to Rome? It usually takes a year of obsessive planning, deliberating, and mind-changing (not to mention a second job!) before I set my sights on a location, but every now and then it actually happens. Maybe I just get bored with myself-we all run out of things to do sometimes. I don't think there's any sort of cultural void in the Boston area that causes this sense of suffocation-in fact quite the opposite. I just feel so fantastic when I'm in new surroundings, like I'm about to discover something that will change me forever. You probably don't notice anything different about me-but I do.

On that note I take you to Switzerland in August 2005. Wish I were still there....