During my life I have enjoyed travelling to many different places around the United States and to some other parts of the world. Every once in a while, such as this week
when I was corresponding with a reporter, I am even able to pull from those
experiences and offer a few suggestions of places to go, things to see, or
where you can get a nice meal. While I am more traveled than some, I fall tremendously
short of others.
Maybe
this is the reason why I experience a slight hint of envy when I read my friend
Nadine’s blog. Nadine and my wife used to work together years ago and since
that time she has been to some amazing places and accomplished some impressive
feats. She has been to France for a season, Italy to visit a friend, and, this
past summer she walked the entirety of the Camino. All of these places would be
wonderful to see but I have yet to travel to those places.
Thankfully,
she has proven to be quite the prolific blogger and photographer so, on
occasion, I will venture over to her page and read through some of the
informative and entertaining posts… most of them have centered on travel but
there is also a good mix of both humor and reflection. I think the most recent
incarnation of her creative passion, “Begin With A Single Step”, touches on all of those
things and more. This was evident in her first post when she
wrote the following:
“A single step feels both enormous and insignificant.
Whether it’s an actual footstep, the beginning action of something, a small
part of a process or even a decision to start; it’s one step. It takes
stringing the steps together, putting one foot in front of the other over and
over again, day in and day out- often tirelessly- to get somewhere. To create
something. To change one thing in your life. To change your entire life.”
I
read the words and look at the picture and while I would like to see those
places first hand there are also places that I have been and experiences I have
had that have filled my life. Some people have even read my posts about them or
heard me mention them in conversation and reacted the same way that I do to
Nadine’s adventures. Even if I never make it to the places that I read about in
books or on blogs, there are so many other things that I would have never been
able to experience had I packed my bags and hit the road.
I
guess we all just live different lives with each of us seeing different things
while others simply imagine them. We can do everything and be everywhere. We
all put one foot in front of the other but it doesn’t mean we are all going to
walk on the same path or in the same direction. And, honestly, I am blown away
by the scenery that surrounds me on my journey.
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