“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
About six weeks before setting off on the ‘Big Trip’ I treated myself to a Destiny Chocolate (something like a fortune cookie – but better of course because it’s chocolate!). The message seemed fortuitous… “Long distance travel is in your future”.
Briar and I have been planning this trip for about a year now… it is the first ‘real’ big trip for both of us, and as well as having to contend with the challenges of moving to a new country (how hard can it be?!), we are also both leaving our ‘significant others’. Most people who have heard the plan, and I have been harping on about it for a while now… called me crazy when they learned that I was leaving Barry behind [side note: Barry is my husband, the love of my life, we have been together since we were 17 and have never been apart for more than a week] but what’s a girl to do? Barry has his own ‘Big Things’ to deal with at the moment, and I, having earlier this year hit the big 2 – 5, need to do this before I really get over the hill! (laugh if you will, but the quarter-age crisis is a real phenomenon now!)
We depart on July 9 at 11.55pm… first stop is Singapore for five days (thinking zoo… lots of yummy food… markets… a Singapore Sling at Raffles…) and then on the 15th of July we arrive in London. The plan at the moment is to spend a week in London exploring the big city and then catch the train to Cambridge where we are both going to look for work, somewhere to stay etc…
At the moment everything feels slightly surreal… I get moments of realisation when it’s like ‘wow, I’m really doing this – and it’s going to happen in less than a month!’ and then almost instantly I start thinking about something else because the concept almost seems too unrealistic… well, it’s going to happen whether I believe it or not – if the chocolate told me… it will be so.
Briar and I have been planning this trip for about a year now… it is the first ‘real’ big trip for both of us, and as well as having to contend with the challenges of moving to a new country (how hard can it be?!), we are also both leaving our ‘significant others’. Most people who have heard the plan, and I have been harping on about it for a while now… called me crazy when they learned that I was leaving Barry behind [side note: Barry is my husband, the love of my life, we have been together since we were 17 and have never been apart for more than a week] but what’s a girl to do? Barry has his own ‘Big Things’ to deal with at the moment, and I, having earlier this year hit the big 2 – 5, need to do this before I really get over the hill! (laugh if you will, but the quarter-age crisis is a real phenomenon now!)
We depart on July 9 at 11.55pm… first stop is Singapore for five days (thinking zoo… lots of yummy food… markets… a Singapore Sling at Raffles…) and then on the 15th of July we arrive in London. The plan at the moment is to spend a week in London exploring the big city and then catch the train to Cambridge where we are both going to look for work, somewhere to stay etc…
At the moment everything feels slightly surreal… I get moments of realisation when it’s like ‘wow, I’m really doing this – and it’s going to happen in less than a month!’ and then almost instantly I start thinking about something else because the concept almost seems too unrealistic… well, it’s going to happen whether I believe it or not – if the chocolate told me… it will be so.
1 comment:
Yes, a journey of a thousand miles starts with one step, but most people continue to make a random series of "one steps". You are sooo different. Your one step is full of purpose and direction, it is calculated and planned - and that is what makes it a journey, rather than a ramble. You will meet many people and experience many things. All those you touch you will leave with something special - a taste of Hana, a very special woman. The journey is not of a thousand miles but of an indefineable moment in the travels of a traveller - a traveller in the physical and spiritual sense. Love you bub.
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