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Wednesday, June 23, 1999
Planning a trip is just so difficult. I keep changing my mind about where I want to go and what I want to do and how I want to get there and what can I afford and what can I not afford to do. I worry about spending too much money, but if I go too far that way I don't enjoy the trip as much as I get too caught up in what I paid for everything. I've met people at the hostels who are traveling the world on the cheap and they seem to spend most of their time discussing what they paid and how little they are traveling on. I can do that at home and they seem to be seeing the world through a veil of money. Trying to travel too cheap can separate you from the world as much as paying too much. I like to just walk around towns and visit historical museums. They are so much fun. It's amazing the things people have donated to these little museums. It's always interesting and usually a bit weird. I enjoy history but there is so much history I don't know what I want to see. There are too many choices and no one can see everything. I like just traveling. I can get caught up in that and just drive and drive for hours and days and not stop except to eat and sleep. I enjoy watching the country roll by but I do need to stop and see the details more. I may try renting a car for my next long trip just so I can stop at all the historical markers and enjoy the little towns. I also tend to overplan and not really follow the plan. I can get real obsessive about where I'm going to stop a week ahead or what is the best way to get there and then I get upset with having to follow such a tight timetale and I ditch it all and just wander and miss a lot of good places. It's still worth it though. I don't really understand people who never want to go anywhere or just want to go someplace to shop or play golf. You can do that at home. Ok, I suppose there are different challenges on different golf courses, but shopping? Come on! I also don't understand people who just go to visit family. Family's nice but there's a whole world out there beyond family. There's a whole world where you don't know a soul and they don't know you and it's great getting to know them.
Walked - 3 miles
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