Around the World with Room Service

We enter heaven with empty hands and open minds. My new credo. Not so much that this is about how to get to heaven: that’s really not it at all. This is about how to find our own personal heaven, or at least how I intend to find mine. I was a BIG COLLECTOR – of art, memorabilia, and pretty things. I saw it as self- expression. Now I see it as trying to find myself. When in fact, all that beautiful stuff only preoccupied me with cleaning, organizing, maintaining, storing, and protecting it. It only hid me from what really mattered to me most. And so I set about the business of selling it. It took almost a year. And it was really nice stuff.  How and why I sold it is a long story and it doesn’t really matter so much to me now to explain it, so we will begin from there.My daughter is graduating from high school in May, and will be leaving for college in August. My apartment lease is up in August too, so I might as well leave the country and travel. Why? Because I’ve always wanted to see the world. Because I can now. Because I don’t want to be stuck here pining for my baby girl suddenly turned college girl. And because I don’t want her to feel guilty for not wanting to come home when she’d rather be partying with her new college friends. So that is that. So I intend to start in an intensive French language school for the first month and ramp up my language skills. I will be high about the Rue Corniche where Princess Grace ran off the road. It is fitting that is where I will be getting on the road. So what am I looking for? A new world view.  a new rest of my life, and a new happy ever after. That’s doable, n’est-ce pas? I invite you to join me as I plan this trip, make my exodus, and live a life of adventure on the road, and in love with the world. 

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