Adventures as a Grown Up

The Edge of Daylight

As we crossed the International Dateline I noticed that our plane was traveling almost perfectly with the sunrise (at least it looked that way on the tv screen I was looking at in seat 52D). From there, I watched the Sunrise over the Pacific Ocean…from the Qantas plane.. but it was a strange feeling. I felt this way last February too. Sept. 1 just didn’t exist for me.

I boarded my place at LAX at 11something PM on August 31 and work up on the plane and it’s suddenly Sept. 2! Crazy. A whole day just gone; interesting. But.. all that matters is that I get to Melbourne, Australia. Soon! THe anticipation of the last two weeks and what is to come is starting to get to me.

I am so excited and nervous all at once and am ready to just to see what happens! While in LA I saw the movie Eat.Pray.Love… again. I love it (The book is better, as always). The last two weeks have been quite a challenge and reseeing that movie reminded me of all the reasons I decided not to cancel this leg of my trip.

I know this isn’t the smartest decision money wise but it’s important to me to experience life. To learn to travel alone long term. To meet people and get over my fear of talking to strangers. To learn how to think about things and “mull them over” in my own time. To take my time. When else am I going to have 6 weeks to myself, to travel as I please? I just want it to get started. I miss my life in DC and the plans there and all that was going on. But this adventure is sure to be fantastic.

Like my plane was following the sunrise and daylight, I now feel like I’m on the edge of something. Right now- it’s just the edge of excitement of the unknown.

Or maybe it’s just Auckland, New Zealand.. after all one of the best advetised activitied to do here is Sky Dive or Bungie Jump! (Don’t worry- I’m not doing either! My travelers insurance doesn’t cover that!) Maybe it’s the fact that even with taking a Tylonal PM a 12+ flight will leave you drained…

Well- off to explore the airport… and maybe take advantage of duty free… maybe?

I have my phone on and with me here. I can receive text messages for free and sending them costs me .50. Feel free to text me but dont expect a response every time. Phone calls will cost me about $1.20 a minute! Emails/Data (ie Facebook) will cost too but hopefully I can find access to email elsewhere!