After 5 weeks that were really too short in France, it’s time to go home. Travel changes a person, and it should. Whenever you leave a place, you should be someone slightly different than you were before. This is especially true of this trip.
There’s something about Saorge that has shifted something permanently. Where I never wanted to live in a tiny town, I now thirst for it, at least this town. The best we can do is come back. Often.
Let me share what I’ve learned about myself while traveling.
1. I thirst for travel. I need more of it. 2. I need to express myself creatively through travel writing. 3. I want to make my living through travel writing. 4. Phones are overrated. But not tablets. Mine is my library and my game resource. Also, I need a new tablet. 5. I can hike up giant Piedmont mountains daily. 6. I can pee in a mountain man’s outhouse toilet, complete with kitty litter sawdust. Anything is possible. 7. I really love forests. 8. Having no agenda is actually pretty fun. My husband will roll his eyes; it took me a while to get that. 9. Traveling alone is pretty awesome too. 10. No matter how great travel is, you still miss your friends.