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So we leave tomorrow at 7:40 am and I'm getting a little nervous. This is a massive trip and my apprehension is mingled with excitement. I'm not sure if I'll be able to write every day, but I'm going to try. I just got an iPod Touch and I'm hoping to write on the blog from the Touch as much as I am able. To all of you who are reading this, thanks in advance for your thoughts and prayers. I (M-C) have always had an insatiable wunderlust for travel. I remember a line the school teacher said in Anne of Avonlea, something to the effect that "I'm not content just to read about the places, I want to see them for myself". That has always resonated with me. But it was alot easier to travel by myself, and then with Dave. Now we have two young boys in tow. No time like the present, right?
When Dave first dreamed up this idea I thought he might be a little crazy. I mean, I was just about to give birth. We had travelled with Declan from Zurich to Switzerland when he was 17 months old, but now there would be two boys, and one of them nursing. Ack! We were blessed that Declan potty-trained this year. Otherwise there is the whole issue of enormous amounts of diapers!
The whole trip was an afterthought of sorts, and really only came together in the last 3 months. Dave has work almost everywhere we go, so it unfolded as a stream of smaller trips we just decided to bunch together. And I had told myself that if I was ever going to travel again, it was going to be with my family, so might as well start now. SO here we go! Our first stop is Zurich. One of my favorite cities in Europe. I hope to post some pictures of each city we visit as we go.
I'm most nervous about the long flights and the two major time changes. Well, and I'm always a little concerned about foreign diseases. But what mom wouldn't be?
So, as Garrison Keillor says, "Do good work, and keep in touch." Auf Wiedersehen.
About the Author
- M-C
- I'm Mary-Catherine. Mother of two sons and a daughter, wife of Econ Man, a frequent traveler full of wonderlust. By day a profoundly exhausted Domestic Engineer: a cook, a referee, a psychologist, a nanny, a house cleaner, a computer operator, teacher, personal chauffer, laundress, interior designer, administrative assistant, bookkeeper, handy gal, groundskeeper, nutritionist, RN, logistics analyst, and day care teacher--all in all CEO of my domain. In a former life, a painter, a sculptor, a poet, a designer, a reader, an academic. But a woman who spurns definition by just one. My blogs chart our family's journeys around the world, searching out those unbelievable moments, both mundane and profound, that make me so happy to be alive.
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