It won't be hard to guess what a post will be about near the end of November: either Thanksgiving or turkeys. I dedicate my post to the bird (as you can see) because unfortunately for me, Thanksgiving is on a Thursday and I work Thursdays.
So there will be no big dinner for me and that means I miss out on cleaning the house BEFORE Turkey Day and after dinner as well. Darn my luck - I was SO looking forward to wrestling with the mop again. On a lighter note, traffic is not very heavy, I get home near midnight to party (when everyone else is sound asleep) and I don't wake up with a tummy ache from overeating.
So what does all this have to do with travel? Nothing - and it isn't supposed to. I write every 3 days about travel so I am entitled to a couple of FREE days aren't I? Oh, I though the union had covered that. My bad.
Travel, travel.. I know! You need something to toast about at dinner with friends? How about being thankful for a country where travel is unrestricted and for the most part affordable. I know, gas prices skyrocket and wreck budgets, fuel surcharges prevent more trips and longer stays, long lines make travel a real headache at times. But we have a pretty good living going on, truth be told. There are no Berlin Walls where we live, no gendarmes checking 'papers' arbitrarily, no restrictions on coming or going into the country now (if you have a passport) so we have little to complain about. In my view, we should be thankful for many things and freedom to travel is one of them.
So my Thanksgiving reference is for us to realize that we take a lot for granted and give thanks for the little things. New jobs, new partners, new friends, vacations are wonderful: but they are big events on our lives and we are generally more thankful for them than we are for the fact the turkeys are available in our supermarkets. And my turkey reference is to give thanks to the bird that graces most of our tables at this time of year - whether I get any this year or not.
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