Well there is no time like the present to start a new travel blog! So what if the trip is not planned to begin until May 18. We have booked the tickets and the clock is now ticking!
If you have read my blogs in the past, you must be familiar with the painful and painstaking way we plan a trip when we go with Jim and Jennifer! And it honestly is worth the pain (and time).
I have resurrected the travelling obstacle course title for two reasons: 1. I haven't exhausted all four seasons yet! 2. I personally, have been the obstacle course for 2012 trip planning this year and am very grateful to Jim, Jennifer and Alan for not wringing my little neck!
2012 was the year we were going to Alaska! This has been on the cards for a few years, we have done two cruises to the Caribbean but Alaska was always in the radar. We even got my niece's family onboard (no pun intended) to go with us. Fantastic! (ultimately that didn't work either!)
Jim and Jennifer came over a few weeks ago armed with laptops and maps and ready to push the send button to book the cruise and flight. However, I got all sentimental about missing Whitney's birthday and stopped them from going ahead. They left a bit confused and confounded, but not angry in any way. I was sobbing because Whitney had made me feel awful.
But then she and I talked about it, and she would have been out with her friends anyway since it is a Friday night and her son, Corbyn, stays with his Daddy on Fridays. Who felt awful for a different reason? Yes, me, again.
In the meantime, Jim and Jennifer are ready and willing to go somewhere and they are good travelling companions. But Alaska had lost its allure for me, not too sure about Alan. I know he is desperate to go, especially after watching the David Attenborough tv program about it. After my experiences of breezing by islands in the Caribbean, I am too afraid to commit myself to what might be a mediocre experience in Alaska. I want to LIVE and FEEL Alaska and I can't see that happening with a cruise.
We had discussed doing a "circle" of New England last year, and it was me again that stopped that. I felt it would be too expensive to go during the Fall season. We don't know the area and that would be the height of tourist season. But this trip came up again and we decided to go for it and it sounds like it will be a wonderful experience, although probably as expensive as Alaska would have been.....
Last night, Jim and Jennifer came over again, armed with laptops and maps....again. We found reasonable flights and I sort of zoned out. I am not a very detail oriented person and once the major decision has been made, I start looking at other "fun" stuff, like New York Yankees baseball schedules!!
This morning as I woke up, I realized we were flying home on June 4th, a Monday. This is the beginning of 2 days off in the UK, for the Golden Jubilee celebrations. and we were flying back on Monday morning, to arrive home at about midnight. Why? I know Jennifer thinks it will help with jet lag, but I think it might be the same or worse. Plus we would have been worried about getting up early enough, like 3am, to get to the airport, not had a quality evening, when we could have been on the plane already, and so on.
I leaped out of bed, sent emails all around, phoned Alan and Jennifer, and at this very moment, she is at our house, once again armed with her laptop so that they can change flights within the 24 hour grace period and get us on the plane home on Sunday.
I need to make a resolution to pay more attention to all details, voice my feelings sooner rather than when it might be too late and be extremely grateful that those 3 people are blessed with a multitude of patience when it comes to me!
How beautiful a day can be? When kindness touches it! - George Elliston
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