mardi, mai 24, 2005 I had dinner with D. after I came home yesterday, and made an offhand comment to him: "So, where do I go next?" He said that he felt the same way every time he returned from a trip - he just came back from exploring the whole of Italy, plus Nice and Monaco (France) with his girlfriend, and we spent about five minutes talking about the possibilites that were out there - the countries unexplored and the people not met. I told him about all the aunties and uncles who had gone on this trip with me - regrettably, it was a package tour, but Egypt isn't a place for two inexperienced girls to go wandering about on their own.The aunties and uncles were your usual ah-soh and ah-pek suspects - except that they weren't. These were super powerful people - there was this bunch of four ladies who always travelled together, and they've been all over the world! The last place they were at was Australia, and they said that they just rented a car and drove around by themselves! No doubt, Oz isn't exactly a dangerous place, plus everyone speaks English, but think about it - these aunties were in their 60s and 70s, and they're going strong! One among the group had actually gone to India for a week with another group of friends a couple of years back! Another auntie-uncle duo co-own a kelong at Tanjong Pinang, and we were invited there to give them business. They too, have been all over the world, and they've been married 40 years. They spent the whole trip bonding with everyone else, and were so jolly it was beautiful to see their optimism. When I told my mom this, she told me of a friend who had shown her a world map with marks on all the places she had been. "I don't know where to go next," she told my mom. I want to be this woman. [Where to next?] |
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