Since writing my first Suzy guidebook, Walk Paris, I have had a love/hate relationship with travel.
Travel is NOT glamorous. Airports are crowded. Seats are uncomfortable. Delays, excruciating. Language leaves you gasping to understand. Nothing is automatic. The frontal cortex is always on alert.
Why does everyone want to book that dream trip? Because travel takes life out of the mundane and injects it with adrenaline. We are all adrenaline junkies.
I’m an old woman, 79, grey hair, body aches, memory sags. Yet, here I am, selling my house, my car, throwing away anything without substantial memories… to move to Spain.
No safety net. No definite plans. Just, listen. Learn. Get involved. Meet people. Pay attention to what is happening around me. Risk failure. Glow upon success.
Spain, here I come.