travel planning

I love to travel. I love to think about the places in this world I want to visit...places rich with history, art, food, language, culture, literature, scenery, and people. I had big dreams for being able to join my friends Dan and Andie on a piece of their 8 month around-the-world trip. They are having such amazing adventures! Alas, Michael and I got caught off guard when we learned of their trip and hadn't saved up for an international trip...we try to go international every few years and have been with Dan and Andie to China (2001) and Turkey (2005).

While I'm not heading too far, the summer travel bug has bit and I'm planning some solo-ish adventures for later in the spring. I've been talking to the BFF who lives in Boston now about coming out to see her. It's been a year and we've got a lot of catching up to do! I've only been to Boston once before, more than a decade ago, so it is right proper time to get out there for my girl.

I'm also hatching up a scheme to visit my friend D in the super exotic town of Killeen, TX (pop. 100,000; an hour from waco and an hour from Austin) before he gets deployed to Iraq later this summer. I originally thought I'd do a quick fly in, quick visit, fly out trip would be the way to go, but I started looking at driving distances and a solo road trip is starting to sound like a mighty fine idea...or at least more of a travel adventure than I might otherwise get this summer.

ah...lovely things to dream of and plan and plot and scheme. I bet there are all kinds of quirky fun off the beaten path things to to in Boston and Killeen