GO JUST GO: Travel found! New sister company goahead tours

On the mere cusp of my travel, leaving in 72ish hours, I am excited to announce I found another tour company (no age limit!) to travel with called Go-Ahead Tours. I called the agent this morning and am excited to get started with them. My friends and family, some laugh at this supposed ‘travel bug’ mentality and they say I will have it out of my system in no time. Gosh, I hope I don’t. I hope it weathers with my body until my end of days. My Aunt Liz is 90 years old! 90 people! Ask me where she has been and that would take more than a day to tell you. My other Aunt Bev is reaching 80 and she has been all over. Their husbands have traveled either with them and sometimes before they met one another. 

People tell you, you can’t, or I’m jealous, or why you? Or I bet you can’t because you live in So-cal now, or well you’re kind of old now aren’t you? I would like to blast those opinions and put them to shame. I am not old and even if I am OLD, forget you. Age is a number not a definition of who I am as a person. I would like children one day and I realize that means my adventures will change to include my children; what is to say it still cannot be done? I find that when I buy material items (to each his or her own by the way) that I am unsatisfied and I want more. The same goes for my travel. The unquenched thirst that continues to grow. I guess some would argue it is a sin or an obsession to have this in my heart. Material items fade and begin to stretch, fade, rust, or decompose. What I pray never dies, is my exploration of this world.
 Go mantra now: GO TRAVEL, GO explore
Our humanity, myself included, fears a lot in this life. Our social media and our news wants to bar us from traveling and limit us to the U.S. I want to see the U.S. too. Two important people in my life stated each separately: you are a problem… (I AM a problem) and yet the other stated, “A good problem to have.” I become so excited to have plane tickets in my hands and to have accomplished another goal set to save money for travel. I try to budget, just like you would a car payment or debt or projects, or savings funds. They tell me not to worry about that money, but I have to remember er try to, is that, everything costs. Nothing is free. My freedom maybe, but my life? No. God gave me the ability to see and hear, touch, and smell, so I will see, hear, touch, and smell before I can’t. 
I don’t want to give up on life. People in case you have not heard, I struggle with depression, anxiety, vanity, and a lot more. Who are we in this life, but the makers of our own destiny? I don’t want to dread the day I leave, I want to welcome its arrival so that I may say I have lived and lived well. I fear death, don’t we all? I know I have said this many times in prior entries, but I could probably say this until I have no more privileges to speak.

With that, I need to finish prepping for this Italy trip and planning maybe my next tour with a new company who has no age limit : Go-Ahead tours :)! Stay tuned for city blogs and overall trip!!! 


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