11-23-24

Turkey.  Soon.  Sooner than I thought.  Couple ideas as to where we’ll stop.  Think we’ve decided on the hotel.  Wait….

Just like I thought, where we’ll be in relation to something else I want to see.  Interested in the coffee and architecture.  In my skipping from site to site I’m seeing more to visit and I know there is no way we’ll see everything.  Absolutely no way.

I remember younger when I’d watch Indiana Jones and how he’d travel, the red line following the airplane over the ocean and continents, thinking “That’d be so cool…”

And here I am, about to go.

Not even sure what I’m looking at now, in this photograph, but it’s beautiful, unbelievable.

Enjoying the thoughts of walking on this street, then another.  Never been, of course, but that’s changing.  Now, at this point in the Mike Madigan story.

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Thinking about the trip while going thought captures on the T7.  The year, like it doesn’t care.  Just wants to pass me, make me reflective.  And I am.  Saying to SELF this morning that there will be an idea today, at some point, that changes everything.  That precipitates to more trips – Paris and Greece after Turkey.  Anywhere we want.

Travel light.  Only clothes and journal.  Indi didn’t have a fucking laptop with him, and neither will I.  Laughing to myself as I type that, but that’s where I am in my head.

Pictures from earlier in the year, no rain, walk to the candy store with the kids after dinner with Mom and Dad and the Nurse.

How does it just.. go by.