“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”-Robert Louis Stevenson.

I love to travel and unfortunately just don’t do it as much as I would like. My dream trip would be one of those cooking tours in Tuscany where you go with professional chefs to vineyards and shops and pick out all the delicious fresh ingredients you’ll need for dinner. From there you go back to the resort and the drinking of wine commences. The chefs teach you how to make some out-of-this-world Italian dish. I know that by the end of the night I’d teach them how to dance on the tables wearing nothing but their aprons.

My other dream vacation is to go to a place I’ve already been- Hawaii! I’ve had the luxury to visit twice and WILL go again someday! It is breath-taking in every way.  The physical beauty, the culture, it’s unbelievably beautifully intoxicating. While I was there I was sure to take advantage of “Things I’ll never get to do again.”  I flew in a helicopter along the emerald-green coast. I hiked the volcano  for hours at night on its sharp, glass-like rock out to where the lava was pouring. I swam with sharks in a cage that separated the sharks and myself with only bars. It was the scariest but most exciting thing I have ever done. You guessed it! I’m a thrill-seeker. Yes, one of THOSE people.

So that leads me to where I currently reside. I’m a recent transplant back to NH from FL. Before that it was NH, MA, VT and before that MA.I know. Who can keep it straight. My grandmother used to call me the gypsy. In my early 20’s when it was more feasible to do so, I had a bag packed in my trunk as during weekends and free time I would travel to see friends far and wide. No drive was too long… as long as there was fun to be had when I got there.

So being a gypsy had to stop as I’m a mom of a wonderful son who keeps me busy and keeps me laughing.  He’s 4 and when I forget to put his shoes on him as I send him out to play he gently puts his arms around me and reassures me by saying. “Mom, You’re not a dork.” Well it’s a good thing because I was beginning to wonder. That said, enjoy. Enjoy and embrace everything you can. Cherish the small things, the big things. Cherish each other. That’s what it’s all about.