Wandering Heart

On a lighter note, I'd like to share some experiences we had while traveling Europe about a year ago.  As many of you may know, my parents and three youngest siblings moved to Manchester, England and lived there for about two years.  Melissa and I were able to go visit them early last year and spend some time visiting mainland Europe.  Our first stop was Paris, France, after taking the Eurostar under the English Channel from London to Paris. When traveling I love to plan out how were are getting from one place to the next, where we will stay, what we will see, and which days we will do what.  I decided to carry all that information with me in a blue folder in my backpack complete with maps, tickets, dates, and other important information.  Of course, I have all this information but don't want to appear as a tourist (which I fail at miserably), so I only ever pull it out when I desperately need it (which happens to be all the time). So, first thing after we ...

"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."     ~Hilaire Belloc Wandering is aimless.  Without an intended destination or end.  It's easy, requires no purposed thought, and no goal .   Traveling usually  has an intended destination to reach in mind.  It can be easy or difficult.  It is typically planned and directed towards a goal.   Some of you may well know that one of my favorite things to do is travel.  I love jumping in my car and taking off to a new city to see places I never have before!  (I would say the same of airplanes but they make me horribly sick.  Even the thought of them right now turns my stomach.)  I have been incredibly blessed to travel here at home and abroad.  The course this blog may take will, more than likely, be directly linked to the travelings and places I have be...

"Why write a blog?" That's the question I've been mulling over in my mind for weeks now.  To be honest, when it comes right down to it, it is because I want to.  But more than that, perhaps I can organize these so called thoughts into a progression of understandable events to bring clarity and definity.  I like the idea that this could become a public journal of sorts.  One where I can express ideas while at the same time allowing my friends and family to understand a part of my life, a part of me.  In no way am I meaning to replace a relationship, only use a means to expand or extend one. There may not be any logical progression to future posts simply reflections of the past, points of interest in the present, conceptions of the future.  Ideas, lies, realities, misconceptions, truths.  Ramblings, blubberings, absolutions, actualities, notions, ambiguities.   One might call this a disclaimer..."Read at your own risk"