2011

Hi there. Yup. I've stopped by for my once-every-six-months post. Except, it's the end of the year now, and you know what that means. New Years Resolutions! One of my resolutions for 2011 is to write more. As I mentioned in an earlier post, writing & travel are my two great loves. Well, I did a lot of traveling in 2010, but not nearly enough writing.

Here's to a new year!

I'm not going to promise that I'll be posting here everyday, as I went from no blogs to now 4 blogs in about a month. But I am going to try. And hopefully that will get me farther than before.

Here are some great trips I have planned for 2011 thus far: The Land Down Under, two weddings, a movie set visit, a celebrity cruise and a theme trip out West. Intrigued? Well stayed tuned! You can hear all about them right here at On Wanderlust.

Elizabeth Gilbert is ON KEY!

"Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby--I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me."
~Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (emphases are my own)

Split open

"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open." Natalie Goldberg

"Travel and writing are my two lovers."

Let's try this again.

I have attempted to keep up with a blog a few times now. The first one constituted me rambling about my life, and it had a pretty decent run. The second was created solely to motivate me to write. I showed it to no one, and it slithered into obscurity after my task was complete.

But next week, I set out again. This time -- Spain.

While searching some old emails, I found an update I had written to an old friend. In explaining what I'd been up to, I prefaced: "Travel and writing are my two lovers."

So, perhaps, a blog where I write about my travels will stick. Hopefully this blog will inspire the wanderlust within me, as well as prime the words I hold within myself.

We'll see how it goes.

Next stop: Spain.