Travel.

I say I have a passion for travel, but I have never really done much of it. I crave it. I want to see the world and experience things. I want the life experiences that I can look back on and be excited about. The hard part about it though, I am cheap. I hate to spend money and I am quickly coming to the realization that travel costs. And travel for two, costs more.

My desire to travel the world became a full fledged passion when I took a first year Art History course in second year university. It was exciting and interesting and I was in love. The prof would always share random tidbits of travel information, like the MacDonald's down the road from the Pantheon has air conditioning and that when looking at the coliseum watch your bag cause its pick pocket capital of the world. This all just made me want to go more, made me want to be the seasoned traveller with information to share such as this.

I am an excellent planner. In most cases I over plan and then have a habit to stress when it doesn't go as planned, but that is besides the point. I have planned four trips to Europe so far, each one more detailed. I have found out places to stay, eat and what to see along the way. I want to go. I have also planned a road trip out west, and one to Florida. I have never taken any of these trips, but if I had the chance I would be ready.

Currently our imaginations have taken us to desire a trip to Montreal. So planning mode has commenced. We had a date set and I had planned most everything from what to see each day, where to stay and what restaurants we must hit up. However, then life got a hold of us and we may be postponing, again. O and did I mention this is the third time I planned Montreal as well. The first was in third year university when myself and some housemates were supposed to go but due to exams and life we decided against it. The second time was for our honeymoon, but after finding out I go zero time off work and if I took it I would lose my job resulted in us not going anywhere and now for the third time. We had hoped to go at the end of the month right after my contract was done and go for a few days including stopping into Ottawa to visits some friends. We are second guessing this due to suddenly moving.

So travel again is taking a back seat to life. I feel like traveling should be life, but we still have plans. The hopes are that if one, or both of us get the library job and then if only one the other gets something else we will go to Europe at the beginning of April (although I feel like Europe in the fall would be fantastic). So fingers crossed that it can all work out. So instead of Montreal at the end of the month we will be frantically job searching, packing and moving and trying to figure out life. But who knows we just may also end up in Montreal.



Taken on my only real traveling experience - reading week project to the Olympics in Vancouver. I then stayed a few extra days with family and took in some events and the local sites. I fell in love.



Also taken in Vancouver. My first mountain, and for a geography student this was a huge deal!