It's been a while since I last did this. It's been a while since we took a big vacation. Four years. This time to the UK. Our Italy trip still stands out as probably the best three weeks of my life. Everything went smoothly. The scenery was magnificent. The food has had me hooked on olive oil and pasta for years. I was more motivated at work upon returning. I was refreshed. Even our marriage was better afterwards. We were less stressed and started to see each other differently, perhaps as more of a team. It's a lot for another trip to live up to. But here we are. Sitting in Bush International waiting to catch a delayed plane to Heathrow.
I feel both more prepared and less prepared this time. More prepared because we have a meticulously planned out itinerary. We are trying to see London in three days. More like two and a half by the time we get into town. There is so much to see and we want to see all of it. Meticulous planning was mostly out of necessity.
Less prepared because of technical difficulties and indecision. I won't get into all the little considerations, but I am blogging from Leslie's tablet instead of a shiny new laptop, or Surface Pro 3, or a new 10 inch tablet, or Chromebook. This tablet is not ideal. The small virtual keyboard is slow to type on and as a WiFi only tablet (purchased primarily to be a reader) doesn't have a good way to transfer photos onto it. The technical difficulties are due to the camera on my phone breaking a week ago. Good timing phone. After exhausting all routes to a solution I can take selfies only. Rough life? I know. While in Italy I blogged from internet cafes and didn't even turn on our phones (they were useless overseas), let alone have access to maps, apps, blogs, and cameras designed to take selfies. Perhaps this is more just pre-travel jitters than anything else. I really wish we were boarding and could get this vacation underway.
(Note: this is posted a day after being written due to lack of WiFi access)
Airport selfie goes here:
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