Here I am. My first blog post (entitled Tiny Shopping Cart) sums up how I got here…wherever that may be!
July, 2017
My sister, Tobi, gave me this birthday card last year. The inside says “No one travels through life quite like you.” I smiled every time I looked at it so I hung it in my office, directly behind my computer monitor. I looked at it for almost a year before I gave the little kid a knowing nod and decided it was time to take my show on the road (my show just being me, not doing anything particularly exciting and not even having a tiny shopping cart prop).
I’d been at my job for ten years when I quit last month. My colleagues, friends, and family were almost overly understanding and everyone seems to want to “live vicariously” through a seemingly irresponsible person. This blog seems like the easiest and most efficient way to do this (and for my parents to know where I am) but if you’d rather just keep up through pictures, my Instagram handle is @Tehastravels
I realize that I’m extremely fortunate to be at a place in my life where I can do this. After 17 years of working [and it felt like a lot of working] I can just stop doing it for a period of time… and it can be okay (or at least so far it is- fingers crossed!). There are so many places I haven’t seen and I want to make a dent in that before re-entering the real world (btw, I was told I’m too young to be having a mid-life crisis so I’m going with that).
I’m writing this at the outset of my travels (July, 2017) from the Charles de Gaulle airport- my first time in France! I’m only here for a few hours but I plan to come back at some point and see more than the Air France lounge (thanks to the Points Guy for telling me about credit cards that give access to lounges!). The free snacks are an amazing perk and I feel like an old lady on a cruise ship stashing away wasabi peas in a baggie for later. Also, I don’t know much French but I always thought it interesting that “Ca va” means both “how are you” and “I’m fine” so I’m trying to drop that as much as I can, just for kicks.
So…welcome to my blog! I’ll try to be responsible enough to keep it up, but no guarantees. I guess the road less travelled doesn’t have many guarantees, but I’m hoping I stumble across at least one tiny shopping cart! It would come in handy to transport the wasabi peas.