1. Decide to create a travel blog
2. Spend hours trying to come up with a name for said blog
3. Spend even more hours perusing the internet (stumbleupon.com is my new favorite thing)
4. Eat lunch
5. Take a nap
Rinse and repeat.
Welcome to my travel blog. If you were looking for my professional photography blog you can view that at http://www.margeauxphoto.com/. That isn't to say that this one isn't professional, I'm simply doing it more for my own personal recollection rather than to showcase my photography business. I wish I had done this several years ago for my travels to Greece but alas, I didn't, and now I've forgotten about half of it. Ah such is life. Guess I'll just have to do it all over again...oh the horror. :)
In less than three days I will be embarking on my second (and definitely not last) trip abroad.
My parents, who have faithfully taken me with them on many cross-country trips throughout the U.S., deserved a vacation. I decided that I would repay them for all of the times we've gone on vacation and they've paid for me (insert "spoiled child" here). I decided that I would give them the vacation of a lifetime (it would have to be, considering that I can't afford more than one). I also decided that there would only be one answer to where we would go -- Ireland.
It had always been my dad's dream to go to Ireland. The movie "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne had him hooked from the beginning. So that was it. It was decided. I bought the plane tickets for us (Thanks, BP!), and put them in their Christmas card. I also wrapped up a few travel books on Ireland. I wrote "You'd better get your passports ready, cause we're going to Ireland!", on the inside of the card containing the print out of the itinerary. When they opened the card, their reaction was not exactly what I had been hoping for. I had hoped for jumping, screaming, smiling, crying, shouts of "horray!", and lots of thank yous. I even videotaped it because I thought it would be momentous. Instead, their reaction was of quiet confusion, followed by curious looks between one another, and asking if I was serious. Yes. I was quite serious. We're going to Ireland...yay?
It took a few hours --or days-- for it to really sink in. But once it did they couldn't stop talking about it. They poured over their travel books I had bought them and discussed where we would go and what we would see. My dad was packed for the trip three months before our departure date. Suffice it to say that I think he's excited in his own quiet way. And that's all I ever wanted.
I am, however, a completely different story. It's two days before I drive to my parents house and I'm still not packed. I haven't even done the laundry yet. Procrastination at its finest. I am most definitely excited about the trip, however I'm not all that geared up for the flight...ugh. Eight hours in the sky is unnatural. I slept through my entire flight to Greece, thanks to an anxiety pill or two, and I intend to do the same en route to Ireland.
So this is going to be my journal for our trip to Ireland, as well as wherever else I decide to go . I am planning on a road trip this summer with my mom to a cousin's wedding in North Carolina as well as a rather extravagant trip by myself to New York City to see my favorite band, A Perfect Circle (VIP tickets, baby!). Maybe I'll even go back in time and put up some of my stuff from Greece. So stay tuned...Who knows, you might even be inspired to take your own trip to somewhere amazing!
And thank you, Mike, for coming up with my brand-spankin' new blog name! It's perfect! Check out his road-trip blog at http://www.alfinmotion.blogspot.com/
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