Wanderlust

I just finished reading Jodi Piccolt's book, Songs of the Humpback Whale, a story about a family in a crisis and how they attempt to work through it all.  It is an interesting story in several ways, perhaps the one facet that really captured my attention however was the road trip across the United States.  I have had the urge to road trip since April, it is beckoning to me, calling my name, compelling me to adventure.

I have never been in one place, one home, so long in my entire life as I have been in Massachusetts.  As a child, we moved several times.  I have lived in many states, the least favorite of all was Louisiana, too hot, too humid and way too many alligators.  Not that it didn't have positives as well, I just don't want to live there again, but I wouldn't mind visiting, the food is amazing. 

I am missing the newness, the discovery, the change of plants and trees, local mannerisms, hearing different types of accents.  I am missing having new threads of experience added to the tapestry of who I am.  With the recent purchase of a used iPod, I have discovered Apple Apps one of which is called Explorer.  Explorer takes your location and then branches out with in certain radius permimeters to show you different things around you that you may not have known about.  I have learned there is a castle near by that I never knew about.  Today, I am going exploring locally, throwing a cookie to my wanderlust.   Maybe soon I will get the opportunity to hit the open road and take a longer trip.