Hi everybody,
This is blog #1
Nov. 27, 2007
Well, it's just a few days before I depart for Asia...My to-do list seems infinite, and my travel anxiety (that you aren't suppose to know about) is at a retatively healthy, elevated hum, rather than at the unusually reved up dred inducing levels of the past...That's a really good thing and I take note of it with a confidant inner smile, kind of like that rare occasion in mid life when you actually kind of like what you see in the mirror...
At any rate, it's looking like the foo dogs of departure will be nipping at my heels even as I leave the ground for the wild blue yonder. The good news is that Austin is about as big as my thumb nail at 30,000 feet..
Crossing the "big water" is always a welcome but still kind of scarry right of passage for me..Something about my body hurling through space and then suddenly dropping down out of the sky and skidding to a stop hours later on the other side of the planet... It's always been a little difficult for me to wrap my brain around, but it's always a comfort to see that no matter where you go, the tarmac always looks pretty much the same.
There is a particular point of this Asian passage that I have come to notice over time and that is the avacado green floor tile of the customs area at the Bangkok airport. But I understand that I will be arriving at the new airport so all I can say is that I hope that the color schemes are similar.
Lots more to come I suppose. I better get with the program as the list is beckoning!
If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture!
XOB
