Well, at this writing, we have all been battling the ideas of quarantine, isolation, no travel, no nothing for the last few months because of the big “C” word. Mostly, we were doing what we had to do. With the exception of the front-liners. The health care folks (i include pharmacy in this), grocers, and truckers, and meatpackers, and everyone who through their role or generally speaking helped keep us all going over the last few months.
We’ve all been touched by this, some more and harder than others, but we have all felt the last few months in some way shape, or fashion. Like many, my family and I had to make adjustments, two parents normally working out of the house now working in, three kids normally out at school now schooling inside, understanding that just because momma and daddy are at home now doesn’t necessarily mean we have extra free time on our hands and you still have school things you need to do. So with all that in mind, I paused for a bit. Would people want thoughts on travel? Would they want to know little nuanced things that may be helpful for them as they plan a trip? Especially after all this? Frankly, I wasn’t one-hundred percent sure. So, what did I do? I paused. I doubted that I timed jumping into all this right, I doubted that people would want this kind of information, I doubted that I could gather it as well as I thought I could in light of everything.
I think in addition to some extra time with family and kids and such the thing that. have gotten the most out of this time is that I have found myself to be more introspective and reflect on twice as much as I usually do-I used to hate the idea of reflecting that’s a big buzz word in my day-to-day profession and while there is value in it, I think we burn it up sometimes and overuse it because it is an easy way to get people to think.
So, what did I arrive at? Great question you ask there. I see people wanting to learn I see people taking advantage of opportunities to grow, to explore, to branch out and do things differently than they may have done so in the past. Lots of time spent with people of significance. Maybe a significant other, parents, kids, you fill in the blank based on you, but I think it is fair to say it has certainly slowed us down and allowed us to take in more from the people who are the most meaningful to us along this road. I think though too, it has allowed us to dream a bit too, to think about what could be. I have noticed creative problem solving seems to have just gone through the roof in the last several months. Why can that not be applied to more? Why can we not dream and think about the creative things about travel? About life? About enjoying the experiences. What can we look forward to again..
So that being said, we are coming back and we are coming back hard. First up, still the piece about some off the norm restaurants in New Orleans, then we are looking at some outdoor experiences too. We’ll go all around the horn on that, then who knows. The road is pretty long and pretty wide from there, and we will go exploring-that I promise you.
‘til next time.
