It is a universally known fact that I love to travel. Actually, ADORE to travel is much closer to the truth. When it comes to sitting around home, I'm not much for it. Whether 'travel' involves going to the nearest ski hill for the day or simply going to the movies or traveling cross-country, it's my idea of paradise. Actually, very little can make me as happy as traveling can. I love people, I love going places.
It is also an almost universally known fact that I live in what could definitely be considered the middle of nowhere. In the summer time my town is a major vacation hot-spot, and I love that. Unfortunately that part of the year I'm working all the time, so I can't enjoy it. The other 9 months out of the year my town is covered in snow--and all but dead. And those 9 months I hate.
Right now it's spring. Spring means lots of things here. It means that the snow is melting, and every week or so it snows afresh as if winter is laughing at us for getting hopeful about seeing the ground. Almost all the snow was gone yesterday. today it's snowing again. Sometimes I think that if it snows one more time I'll cry.
Spring also means that my family and I travel. Spring seems to be the best time for travel, after all, who would want to vacation to this part of the world during this miserable weather? Last week, my sister and I went and spent 4 whole days with my cousins in Milwaukee. It was so good to be out of the cold! It's only 4 hours south, but it makes all the difference in the world. We even got a very hot day that was in the 80s.
This year someone else is traveling too. My best friend and her husband are moving to Florida. They left yesterday, and I already miss her. I miss that she'll be here with me, and I miss that we won't get to see her when she's absolutely huge with her baby. And I'm kind of miffed that she'll get to sit on the beach while we're shoveling snow out of our driveway. After all, Naples Florida is like a little piece of paradise.
Now, only a few more days until my family fires up our RV and leaves for Florida. Yes, we're going to Florida too. Not Naples, we're going to spend four days camping on the Atlantic Ocean. Two days visiting a friend of my mom's in Orlando. And there will be nine other days spent traveling there and back, seeing sights and going new places.
Every time I think about our trip, I'm happy. To be on the open road, free and headed for unknown lands, that makes me happy. Now I just have to wait until Wednesday!
