Gettin’ Carried Away

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated my blog, and I’ve had good reasons.

• I haven’t been traveling.
• I haven’t been keeping up with travel trends.
• I haven’t spoken to any of my TBEX/Twitter travel buddies.

When you travel, do you ever get the feeling that you’re invincible? Let me put it this way…

• Your flight leaves on time.
• Your flight lands early.
• You receive a great hotel upgrade… at no cost.
• You get to see and do everything you planned.
• Your return trip home is also smooth sailing (or driving, or flying).

When everything is seemingly perfect, when you successfully avoid Murphy’s Law while traveling, you may gain a sense of infallibility. I know I do. So when things go wrong at home, it makes sense that travel, and everything to do with the world of travel, takes a HUGE back seat.

~* Buzz off, rapid strep throat! I’m still going to NYC! *~

It all started when I contracted rapid strept throat last month. An impromptu (and expensive) trip to the ER confirmed my sickness, and I postponed my latest New York trip by a day (losing out on a few hundred dollars to change the flight last minute). And while I was in New York, I couldn’t do everything I wanted to do because I was really sick. I was in pain, I was fatigued, and I went to bed before midnight every night in the city that never sleeps. It–for lack of a better word–sucked. Yet, I was still able to get to the new Yankee Stadium for Game 1 of the ALCS (Yankees vs. Angels), and I got to stroll through Central Park, which is GORGEOUS in the fall, hand in hand with the love of my life.

Although I fought through one hurdle, once I returned home, the sickness and the drama just wouldn’t leave me alone. I’ll spare you all the gory details, but for the past few weeks, I’ve been dealing with reoccurring sickness, loss, anger, frustration and more.

I started to put things into perspective. Travel is a part of my life, and it’s a part of my life I refuse to give up. I’m going to get sick. Dear friends are going to pass away. Bad people are going to try to drag me down. I am going to have money struggles. However, I will not compromise my values, my beliefs or my passions just because I am feeling under the weather.

Life happens. Sometimes, you can’t travel, but that doesn’t mean it is out of the question.
I’m back and ready to rock!

A big thank you to all of you who have sent warm wishes in the form of emails, text messages and comments. Thank you for your support!