Just kidding. I really changed it because the previous title and URL were very specific to my travels to Vanuatu and the South Pacific. But I go other places, and I wanted by blog to reflect that. Especially because I am currently on a rather epic month-long trip about China (with a few stops in Europe).
I chose the new title of this blog, "Recollections of Sitting", based on a quote that says “Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.” There is a lot of truth to that! Yes, most of the time when we think of travel, we think of the things we do when we reach our destination. But often the journey to that destination is an experience in and of itself. And how often do those journeys—and even the short journeys from one place to another once we have reached our destination—involve little more action than sitting in a plane, a train, a car, a ferry?
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Four days into my current trip, I am finding my choice of titles to be a very accurate one, indeed. At present, I am sitting in the 6th airport of the trip, having logged nearly 24 hours of flight time, and about 3 hours (and counting!) of flight delays. That is a lot of sitting.
But it has not been uninteresting! For one, it has involved some tight connections, a cancelled and rebooked flight reservation (done without my knowledge!) which got us put on standby, and flying through 2 airports I've never been to! Not to mention some new stamps on my passport!
I will grant that most of my trip so far has been the process of traveling, but these experiences of sitting, of waiting for the next thing to happen, of anticipating the next stop, of the journey itself, these are where my stories are.
I will be sharing these stories with you, dear readers, as my trip goes on. There will be a delay before the next update, however, as I will be in Mainland China, and Google is censored there (blogspot is a Google site). I look forward to having plenty of stories to share with you when I return!
Off to go find my flight for 4 more hours of sitting! ;)
