Where Will I Be

This peanut is moving to Wales for four months starting in October. She will be without her fellow peanuts and, sadly, doesn't talk to them very often anymore. She will always think of them when she is in Europe on new adventures, and she will always smile when she looks at photos of their travels together in the UK, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Netherlands. Even Chicago, Atlanta, and Charleston. It would be nice if they could reconvene one day, but she wonders...

So, this time, a solo peanut will be hosted by dear friends whom she met while working the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She'll be staying in one place in the countryside more than speeding from capital to capital. More Land Rover than Ryan Air. More cawl than falafel. More learning than wild partying. Oh, but adventure just the same. (And that's not to say I won't be returning to my old travel habits on occasional weekends...)

Love to you all, if any of you are still out there.

Got On My Traveling Shoes

Okay, new peanut: Willow is joining me for the Barcelona leg of my upcoming trip. This is very exciting. While a solo European adventure would certainly have been fun, it will be perfect to have Miss Willow along as a gastronomic buddy to share my dinners and bottles of wine.

Other peanuts, we need to plan adventures too... Miss you both.

Doing the travel timewarp

Time travels at a different speed when one is on the road. Looking toward the world to which I will return in less than two weeks' time, it is hard to believe that as much as has happened in my world during the past 10 weeks has also happened at home. Getting time and place to line up in my mind and in my memory will be difficult as the two seem to travel at different speeds in my mind, home will be exactly as I left it when I went away. Alas, that is never as it is, and while I have been away things have happened and lives have changed.

So I wonder...How long will it take me to adjust to being back? Or will I be able to jump right back in?

Spainward Bound

This peanut is going to Barcelona (and onward to Italy for Terra Madre) in October, but she is going without her fellow peanuts. First time in Europe without one or both. Weird.

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Say, let's pretend we are somewhere else today... But where?

East Coast Line

DC calls, Ladypants. Come see Condi P on her home turf... And me.

Istanbul in 2008...

Any takers?

I'm game for a Power-suit Peanut Reunion Tour...