The best things arrive on time- take 2

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Time for the Journey to take off and climb

July has finally arrived, the 4ths festivities are gone and Summer is here in full blast, high temperatures and the same for humidity. Thunder and  lightening storms are spectacular and almost as loud as the fireworks of last week. The blizzards of the Winter are alive in photos, but are a distant memory.  I recently heard someone saying,  "Its so hot, I wish it would snow."  Not my sentiment... Still here in NY, but my mind is slowly focusing on a week from now....Looking out to the sky and feeling that airline seat under me.

After the dedicated detective work to find and book air travel and hotel arrangements I am strangely reluctant to make any "plans" for my visit. I get off the plane and..................,

That is as far as I get in my mind. No plans. Maybe 'cause the immigration and custom lines of the past as the total antithesis of the words, relaxed, fun and vacation. Can't seem to imagine  me out of the airport. Perhaps its a safety mechanism to chill me out and let me work all next week? Friends ask, "What are you going to do there"? Enjoy and have fun is the only answer.  This attitude for me is not a usual. More of a take charge and lead. Now sorta floating between....all work has been done, and soon will be the time for my reward.

The very strangest part of this is that even though I have not set foot on Barbados in this lifetime, because of all the wonderful input, help, warnings, lectures, laughter, fun and support that I have been privileged to get from so many wonderful Bajans, it feel like I am visiting old friends. Only my memories are not old, rather they are fresh and young.

 This journey is part of a path.  My adventure – self-determined, self-motivated,  it will allow me to have firsthand encounters with  Barbados and Bajans. The land  people the way it and they are, not as I  imagine.  My body and soul will collide with the earth and sand and sea and people. Learning, experiencing,  adjusting even experimenting all as a part of living my life. I want to be a  traveler and not a tourist, so will change me. Nothing will  be the same. It can't be if I am not.....Guess I am going to find out!

"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

Perhaps.......... ?