It’s time!

The house is packed up, and we’re ready to go.

Tickets were finally purchased yesterday, and this time tomorrow we’ll be enjoying business class on Singapore Air! Yes, that is a 48 hour turnaround, but we were ready for it. Also, I’m focusing on the free champagne. Goals are important to me.

Questions of Travel, by Elizabeth Bishop

Think of the long trip home.
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?
Where should we be today?
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play
in this strangest of theatres?
What childishness is it that while there’s a breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush
to see the sun the other way around?
The tiniest green hummingbird in the world?
To stare at some inexplicable old stonework,
inexplicable and impenetrable,
at any view,
instantly seen and always, always delightful?
Oh, must we dream our dreams
and have them, too?
And have we room
for one more folded sunset, still quite warm? (13-29)