Leaving

Are you excited?? It’s the million dollar question everyone asks before a holiday. Yes of course! Is the answer expected. Full disclosure, I am NEVER excited before a trip. Worried, yes. Anxious, for sure. I hold out for excited. I am a first class worrier, it comes naturally to me. And anxiety is the icing on my cake. Travel just seems to push me over the edge of reason.

I start early. Why wait? I obsessive about the chance of missing a detail or forgetting an item in my planning or packing. Did I book the right hotel? Do I have have enough food/snacks (like enough to sustain us for a month on a deserted island.) Or if we should get a SIM card and which one is best?! I worry too about those I’ve left behind (we have awesome sitters for all) but I know how much they miss us. The devil is truly in the details.

So you might ask then why I endure, why not just stay home and never travel? I say because I would never then have the chance to make memories, have adventures, meet people and explore other cultures or capture all this to share with others. I love and cherish every adventure I have taken each in its own way.

I write this as I am flying clear across the world sitting on my aching ass (which I was worried about). I sometimes just can’t reason with my mind. I have learned instead to trust the process, and like this plane hopefully arrive gently and smoothly at my destination with a fresh new perspective.

Let the Tokyo adventures begin…