This year (2012) I was given the supreme gift for someone like me who equates her freedom and sense of self by the amount of travel she gets to do.
I'm not kidding when I say my sanity and sense of well being are intrinsically linked to looking back in my rearview mirror or seeing the ground disappearing beneath me. I realized one day when I decided to take a freeway home I'd never been on before, the 23 and the 118, that there is a leveling of ego when you look out over a never ending sea of mountains. You feel so small, so insignificant and yet more alive than ever.
So my gift? I was chatting with a friend who a year ago had become a flight attendant I was telling her that I'd made the decision that no matter what, I was going to travel a lot more this year (2012.) She mentioned her "friends and family discount" which she said I was welcome to use. Then she started to so say how because she didn't currentlyhave a significant other she had given that perk to her best friend but she had only used it once last year. Then she had an epiphany and said, "I should make YOU my significant other. It's a perk and I really want it to be used and you're the only person I know who will use it regularly." I think I said, "Absolutely. When can you sign me up." She said as her friend only travelled occasionally she could just as easily use the buddy passes she had. She told me that the change over couldn't happen until the new year but as of January 2012 I'd be good to good.
I was beside myself. It was hard waiting for the end of the year to come for my name to be added but now it has. I still have to learn just how this will work but it is my plan to go somewhere new in the US and have an adventure at least once a month if not more for as long as I can.
