I love to travel with my wife Lucy Rose for so many reasons. It is generally exciting and fun to see new places with her. An ideal trip may be some combination of walking through nature and moseying through a cosmopolitan city. I love to explore and have adventures.
I bring my camera; she brings her sketchpad. When we come back, she will typically spend a few days reviewing the photos and sketches to identify the best ones. She then makes a digital souvenir book and orders it. Then we wait another week until we get the book back. The book contains both photos and sketches.
We generally order four copies of the book. We keep one for ourselves. Two copies go to our son, one of which goes to our daughter-in-law‘s mother. And one goes to my aunt who lives in Florida.
We have gone through this process for many years. We do a lot of travel, so we have quite a collection by now. We look through our copy many times and then put it on the shelf. Occasionally, we’ll take a book out and look at it to generate some smiles.
Right now, travel is not a possibility. We are in a high-risk group – older and having pre-existing medical conditions. We are extra-careful and will not go on a plane, or restaurant, or theater. We miss our traveling.
Recently, we tried an experiment. We checked a couple of our recent travel books out of our own library. We went through them slowly, page-by-page. Both of us were surprised how much we enjoyed that experience. Our travel restriction didn’t make us upset as I had expected it might.
I remember hearing about old people who live in the past. They couldn’t get around very much. All they could do was to reminisce.
So, whether we are really old ourselves or not so much, we will remember our past good times for now. When there is an effective vaccine and we’ve had our shots, I anticipate we’ll do more traveling and have more adventures.
Are you traveling now? If not, what are you doing in its place?
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