A month ago I started writing about my June trip to Brazil, thinking that by December 19 I would have eaaaasily covered all my 20+ days there. As it often happens to me, frustratingly often let me add, I was wrong... No Recife, no Porto de Galinhas, no Maceió, and last but most definitely not least, no Salvador da Bahia, where I returned for my last four days in Brazil, before flying back to Europe. What's ironic is that the part of the trip I will never write about in this blog, is the best one, especially the last four days in Salvador da Bahia, which I left, having that feeling that what I was leaving behind me was a very-very-very special place, one of those places I can see me live one day in. Sounds heavy, but this is what I think about Salvador da Bahia...
Why should I be done with my Brazil memoirs by December 19? Because same day next week I will be on my way to the US, first time ever. Now, I first set this blog up a few weeks before traveling to India last year, exactly because of that trip. When I got back, I put my blog in the fridge, and I only took it out and breathed some life into it again, while I was getting prepared for my trip to Brazil. This time... This time, weeks before making yet another big trip, instead of writing about the US, I spent my time writing about Brazil. How come? It's simple. I didn't manage to get enthusiastic about this trip... I bought non refundable/non changeable tickets dreaming of spending my 20 days in the US in one way, some time after that things changed, but I was stack with those tickets, so between losing them altogether and making some use of them, I chose B... I'll spend 90% of my time there in California, starting from San Diego and finishing up at San Francisco...
The other day I wrote that it's all about expectations... You get a B+ while you were waiting for an A+ and you are left disappointed. You get a B+ while you were expecting a C- and you are over the moon. In both cases you have gotten a B+... I say so, because up to now, every single time I made a trip with very low expectations, I was hugely rewarded. So, deep down, maybe it's a good thing that I haven't touched my Lonely Planet USA guidebook for weeks now, maybe it's a good thing that in a week from today I am flying, but quite truly I don't feel one single butterfly jumping around my stomach...
Then again, maybe I am just too damn spoiled, maybe someone who doesn't travel often and would love to be in my rotten spoiled shoes, should give me a good virtual spank on the butt or punch my face, bringing me back to my senses... I am going to the US for Lord's shake!, what's the matter with me?!...
Anyhow, one of the thingies I bought these last days, is a USB... thing, that will allow me to go online in wi-fi areas. Yes, I am taking the painful (but rewarding as well, I hope), step, of taking my laptop along. Bottom line, if you drop by here some time between December 19 and January 7, you will find stories of mine from the US (unless I get lazy and I end up regretting taking the laptop along in the first place...).
Why should I be done with my Brazil memoirs by December 19? Because same day next week I will be on my way to the US, first time ever. Now, I first set this blog up a few weeks before traveling to India last year, exactly because of that trip. When I got back, I put my blog in the fridge, and I only took it out and breathed some life into it again, while I was getting prepared for my trip to Brazil. This time... This time, weeks before making yet another big trip, instead of writing about the US, I spent my time writing about Brazil. How come? It's simple. I didn't manage to get enthusiastic about this trip... I bought non refundable/non changeable tickets dreaming of spending my 20 days in the US in one way, some time after that things changed, but I was stack with those tickets, so between losing them altogether and making some use of them, I chose B... I'll spend 90% of my time there in California, starting from San Diego and finishing up at San Francisco...
The other day I wrote that it's all about expectations... You get a B+ while you were waiting for an A+ and you are left disappointed. You get a B+ while you were expecting a C- and you are over the moon. In both cases you have gotten a B+... I say so, because up to now, every single time I made a trip with very low expectations, I was hugely rewarded. So, deep down, maybe it's a good thing that I haven't touched my Lonely Planet USA guidebook for weeks now, maybe it's a good thing that in a week from today I am flying, but quite truly I don't feel one single butterfly jumping around my stomach...
Then again, maybe I am just too damn spoiled, maybe someone who doesn't travel often and would love to be in my rotten spoiled shoes, should give me a good virtual spank on the butt or punch my face, bringing me back to my senses... I am going to the US for Lord's shake!, what's the matter with me?!...
Anyhow, one of the thingies I bought these last days, is a USB... thing, that will allow me to go online in wi-fi areas. Yes, I am taking the painful (but rewarding as well, I hope), step, of taking my laptop along. Bottom line, if you drop by here some time between December 19 and January 7, you will find stories of mine from the US (unless I get lazy and I end up regretting taking the laptop along in the first place...).
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