Wanderlust

I've been lotsa places this year. Most of `em just for a minute or two it seems. I've caught the travel bug and am considering becoming a big rig driver. (I am not including layovers in airports, though if I was--I've spent quite a bit of time in Dallas)

List:
St. Louis, MO (4 times?)
Detroit, MI
Philadelphia, PA
Chapel Hill, NC
Cleveland, OH
Dayton, OH (these barely count of course)
Napa Valley, CA
San Francisco, CA (for nearly no time at all)
Austin, TX
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Barbados
St. Lucia
Antigua
St. Maarten
St. Thomas (cruise ships inflate numbers)


Still to come:
Virginia Beach
Grand Rapids, MI
and trips back to the Lou and NC
and probably a jaunt to Baltimore in Feb.

Derby and unprecedented family vacations have made this a crazy year. I know derby isn't going to die down at all, though I'm pretty sure the family trips are over for awhile. Ryan and I are opting out of a mini-trip to Vegas we were considering for December because sometimes it's nice to have vacation days at home.

G'day October

Pretty creepy, but after a long period of feeling pretty okay, this week I've hit the skids again. So I think, maybe I'll check my blog and see if this is the time of year that this happens. Sure enough October 17, 2006 I posted something very similar to how I'm feeling today. This year it feels completely magnified because I just spent a vacation week in what to some might be paradise. I had a great time... sun/fun/etc... but re-entry has been pretty difficult, especially since in the week that I was gone mornings have become dark and rain has become cold. Also I'm completely lame and any amount of time spent away from people means I have to start the sweaty process of easing back into conversation--but everybody else expects that the relationship is still at the same place. Also I gave blood yesterday, which is normally an easy task for me, but it meant that my body was too exhausted to practice correctly--and that is driving me bananas. So yes I'm my good old neurotic/depressive/socially dysfunctional shelf. But it's October, and apparently that's normal.