2010 Travel?

Prompt: Travel. How did you travel in 2010? How and/or where would you like to travel next year?  [#reverb10]

I went to Tupper Lake (for a week) and Woodward, Pennsylvania (twice, for an overnight, meaning two pairs of back-to-back days of driving 7 1/2 hours).   An overnight in Plymouth in a houseful of women, on the beach.  A boatride in Scituate. Clearly not a big travel year. Such a cut and dry answer, I decided to post even though yesterday, said I wouldn’t.

Plymouth.

Don’t have time at the moment to upload pictures from Tupper Lake — (there were 900).  I got to play with my new camera that week!

(K. went to China six times, India once, and Korea once or twice.  Not glamorous trips, but . . . )

In 2010 I’d like to go to Colorado, California, and see the Grand Canyon.  Those are possibles.  Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could also manage a trip to Italy (for the food, not the art), southern France, Greece, Spain, or the Caribbean?  Maybe like Queen Latifah, in “The Last Holiday”, I’ll start me a ‘Book of Possibilities’.  (That’s a movie I’ve decided needs to be part of my December viewing — along with Elf, and at least a portion of “It’s a Wonderful Life” — (second half is just right, I’ve learned)).

Observation about this exercise — of the three prompts I’ve done — very, very geared toward young, fresh-out-of-college people.

What exciting things did I do this year? (not travel-related?!)  Grew potatoes for the first time.

Went to many nail-biting track meets for Newton South, winter and spring.  Made quilts.  Read a LOT of good books (that’s for another post).  Got a job and worked it for half a year (still working it) (one of the benefits there? – buying shoes that cost over $29 for the third time in a decade and a half – wahoo!!). Explored Salem. Maintained one garden in Boston and installed some foundation beds here in Newton. Learned how to weave fabric strips, a la Jude Hill.

See?  It’s a different question, with a much more full kind of answer.

6 thoughts on “2010 Travel?

  1. Ginny

    I’ve tried to post a couple of things on your blog but they have gone off to the ether…I will try again. Love the shot of the olives. I’d say you had a very busy full 2010.

    Best for the new year ahead.
    Ginny

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  2. deemallon

    sorry about the bounces — when I logged on to blog just now, had to actually log in, which I don’t usually — hope that fixes it!

    Arlee — you grew potatoes, too?!! it’s so easy, I wonder why I hadn’t done it before. Of course, my crop was very small. Still, I will do it again in 2011.

    It was a busy year, Ginny… one of the highlights has been getting to know you!!!

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  3. Kari of Writing Up A Storm

    I think my traveling days are pretty much over, but I still love to “travel” in books or by way of dvds and the internet. I’m finding I love memoir and biography more than fiction, too, so I am traveling back into the past more, or into someone else’s life, into their thoughts and how they went from here to there. I wish you many wonderful travels in the new year, in whatever form you take them. Happy end of one year, happy beginning of the new year. I have loved reading your posts this year. I love the quirky joy you find in day to day things, and your appealing honesty at the up and downs of life. Bless you!! xoxo Kari

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  4. dee

    Thanks for stopping by, Kari and Carolyn. Kari – at first I read “appalling honesty”, which I have been accused of from time to time in my life! Seriously, though, I appreciate your feedback and the reminder that the imagination takes us plenty of places…. I forget who said it, but I often quote her (?) to remind me of same, and that is: “A life spent reading good books is a life well-spent.”

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