First, a caveat: I clearly suck at maintaining a regular blog. Ok, with that out of the way….
Recently I made an amazing trip across China, immediately followed by an East-to-West trip across Canada. Travelling time? about 15 min.
Yup. I went to Flyover Canada in downtown Vancouver, which had a bonus feature of Flight of the Dragon (China). Total cost: $21. If you don’t count my daily three-hour commute, this is the highlight of my travelling so far in 2014. (I’ll pause for a moment so you can truly reflect on my amazing journey….. yup, that’s should be long enough.) Don’t get me wrong – it was pretty cool. And the absence of airport security and jetlag was awesome, but… after it all, I was still in Vancouver.
As an email from London Pass reminded me the other day, it’s been a year since I last visited them. This also means that I am soon to be a year older . (FYI: I’m finding out that the older you get, the quicker you get older.)
My travel account continues to grow, albeit slowly. However,  I fear I have reached my 3-ish-year itch. What’s that, you say? Well, I’ve recently realised that I get “bored” with my life about every three years and need a change of scenery. It used to be that a simple change in furniture arrangement would do me; then it grew to moving apartments; at times, a change in work position or employment was needed. In the extreme, I’ve been known to skip the country. Whichever the case this time, I’m itchy. <scratch>
So, I’m methodically cleaning out the crap from my apartment <scratch>, while compulsively checking Craigslist for apartments and jobs <scratch>, interspersed with working a 2nd contract job <scratch,scratch> and periodically checking Dave’s ESL Cafe for a new country <scratch, scratch, scratch>. Nothing yet. <scratch>
It doesn’t help that I have 5 friends travelling (separately) to places I’d LOVE to be right now. <scratch, scratch>
Just received my Outpost magazine in the mail, so I’m off to see what wonderful places I can travel to just by flipping a few pages…  <scratch… scratch,scratch,scratch>