The Awakened Traveler

I am heading back to New York City next month for three weeks. It's been five years and much has happened and much that I had thought would happen did not. I am going to be working out of my company's NYC office, so I won't take but one or two days of vacation. I feel the need to reconnect with some old friends and spend some time with my sister who still lives there. And I miss the food. One of the first things I am going to do is eat a New York bagel with cream cheese! Oh, how I miss NYC bagels! They just aren't the same anywhere else. I worked in Manhattan from 2002 to 2009 and pretty quickly I adopted a love/hate relationship with the Big  Apple. Loved the availability and variety of of food, the people from all over the world, the night life, the not having to have a car, but hated the cost of just about everything and the crowds. The city wore me down. Being an empath the city became unbearable on a daily basis. So yada, yada, yada...as Seinfeld would s...

This was written a while back when I had no ties. I do now, a dog Lucy, a cat Sofie and a boyfriend Corwyn, who I very much love. When I wrote this, I was thinking of living in Paris, which still may happen someday even if it's just a short time. I dream of renting an apartment in Paris and finishing my book. Oh, wouldn't that be nice!! On my 50th Birthday in 2008, I took a solo trip to Paris. It is the city of Lights and of amore, and I fell in love with it. I walked the streets a newcomer but left feeling like I belonged to it somehow. On my first night, I was drinking a vin rose at a corner cafe down the street from my boutique hotel in the garden district and overheard some Americans talking about their lives there. I thought, now wouldn't that be a dream come true. I have no ties, in fact, everything I own, minus my car and my cat and some personal belongings that I have taken on the road, is still in a moving POD in New Jersey. So it wouldn't be that far-f...