Nomad's Pub

Next stop...??

I suppose that every once in a while it is a good thing to just stop and take a look at everything you have been doing... Well, I had opportunity to do so today, while enjoying a barbeque of spikachky (Slovak specialty--no idea how to describe it...kind of like a hot dog, but definitely not) out in the country. It was nice to be out of the city, to sit in the fresh air... to feel warm again for the first time since returning from Africa.

Goodness, it has been cold!!

(And wet...)

But today was bleutiful--I mean, beautiful--and warm and sunny...

Sitting there, it was rather interesting to realise that I really have been doing a lot of travelling lately. I mean, I know I have been--am--doing so, but I don't usually think about it... But this is what I realised...

Sunday, 22 April 2007 I was in Nairobi, Kenya.
Sunday, 29 April 2007 I was in Kampala, Uganda.
Sunday, 5 May 2007 I was in Budapest, Hungary.
Sunday, 13 May 2007 I just outside London, England (UK).
Sunday, 20 May 2007 (that's today...) I was in Bratislava, Slovakia.

To continue that trend...
Sunday, 27 May 2007 I will be in Pennsylvania, USA.
Sunday, 3 June 2007 I will be in New York, USA.
Sunday, 10 June 2007 I will be in either Indianna or Ohio, USA.

And finally...
Sunday, 17 June 2007 I will be back in Europe, potentially and probably in Slovakia... but who knows? I'm sure I don't!! But either way, that is 6 weeks of being in a different country each Sunday... 3 Sundays of being in different States... and technically, the week before being in Nairobi, Kenya, I was way far north in yet another radically different setting (though still in Kenya.)

That's a lot of places, even for me...

This week alone will find me in four different countries... Slovakia... Austria (meetings & hopefully visiting friends & my old secondary school)... England (short airplane layover)... USA (weddings of friends). Crazy.

Sometimes I wonder what it must have been like before airplanes and internet. The world itself has become so much smaller... but that really is because it requires our personal worlds to become so much bigger.

What I want to know is... do you ever reach a point where your world just cannot get any bigger? You just can't squeeze in one single more culture or worldview or friend or...

I find it all very stretching, but I do think rewarding as well.

What can I say? Next stop... Vienna!

posted by Lada @ 5:41 PM