Since the Library is closed from Dec 22nd until January 2nd, I’ve been checking out hotel/air deals online for that time period--might as well travel if I have to take vacation time anyway. So far the only really affordable packages I’ve found for international travel were Mexico City, Vancouver, and Amsterdam. I’d like to hit Mexico City and do some ruins and drink some cervezas; Vancouver would be nice for the mountains and the water and the newly tolerated coffee shops popping up around town (that’s why they call it Vamsterdam now); Amsterdam I’ve seen but there’s plenty we didn’t get to do in our two days there.
I thought about someplace new like Florence or Barcelona or Hong Kong, but the prices are freakin’ way out of range. Even London, where we had a jolly ol’ honeymoon, and where I’d like to return, is exorbitant at that time of year. Copenhagen is pricey, as is the south of France—I guess the low season for international travel doesn’t really start until mid-Jan.
Ferocity was just here with a pile of music scores for us to stamp and sticker tonight. She’s fun to watch because she’s always got her hand on her belly or on her back these days. She referred to The Spawn as “stupid baby.� Shocking.
Perhaps we’ll simply spend a week in Chicago or New York or San Diego—I always think that I’ll save domestic travel for retirement, but if W. wins again I might not still be here then.
Perhaps we’ll stay home and I’ll just read books and back issues of The New Yorker.
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one more and I gotta go--we're staying. Don't go to Louisiana 'cause we just blew a bunch just to fly down for my sister's wedding---so much we can't go anywhere for xmas. go to NYC or sumthin.
I was thinking of La too. Thanks for the tip.
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