February 22, 2000
Travel Bug
I think I sort of like the pattern I've developed over the past week or so. I've been going to bed by 1 or 2 am, which is remarkably early for me, and as a result, I've been getting up early enough to have time to write before going to work. I don't know how long I'll keep doing this, but hey... I like it while it lasts.Max just sneezed and knocked himself off the desk with the force of it. Ohhhhkay. Well, if nothing else, he keeps me entertained.
I'm still moodswinging. I've also been as indecisive as hell. There are two trips I want to make, both at the end of March. Obviously, I can only make one of them. Both are to people I really want to see. Both will involve meeting some people I've never met, but have wanted to. One trip will be less expensive than the other. I suppose I could just not go on either, but the travel bug has been hitting me awfully hard lately. It's been a year since I went anywhere outside of the state.
I've actually had the urge to go on a train trip. I don't know why exactly, aside from having read a few journal entries here and there of different people who took train trips. I've only been on a train once, and that was to go from Ann Arbor to Kalamazoo. Not an enormously long trip. Of course, given my teeny bit of vacation time, usually when I travel it's over a weekend and everything is as squished together as it can possibly be. Still, the romance of traveling on a train, being able to write or read the hours away while watching America pass outside my window... that's hard to resist. Of course, I know the reality would probably not be nearly as lovely, but... we'll see. Logic tells me I shouldn't go anywhere at all. We'll see about that too. I have never been renowned for my logic.
Well, checking out Amtrak's web page was singularly unhelpful. It said I'd have to call them to find out about the itinerary I was interested in. However, it has gotten me more interested in taking a train trip.
Any focus I had this morning for writing has gone completely out the window. I may add more later today, if my world suddenly turns upside down or something.
Posted by Lisa at February 22, 2000 09:15 AM
