There
was a time when I used to travel a lot, mainly for work, nearly more
often away somewhere than in my hometown. After a while, I thought of
starting a travelogue to keep a record of all those marvellous new
countries I visited, the people I met, new scenes, culture, traditions,
languages, food ... I thought it would be a shame to let time dim the
lovely memories of all such new found knowledge and pleasure.
So
I started jotting down first the dates of each trip, followed by names
of places visited, country, city & even, or especially, those of
any little villages out in the sticks, way out of touristic areas;
names of each hotel & restaurant with their locations, any
particular events or festivities I had witnessed or participated, any
interesting or unexpected occurrences or personal experience. Always
with a brief comment, or sometimes not so brief; my own observation or
impression of each place, etc. I put down my own grading of each
hotel, only the ones I liked & why I did. And the restaurants of
course. I even wrote down any special food I tried, with detailed
descriptions. I collected cards of hotels, restaurants, galleries &
museums, scribbled little notes at the back of each to be entered into
the travelogue later.
Then
with my modelling assignments often came up with hardly enough time to
pack my bags, & the accumulated work of my model agency & my
charm school to clear up upon my return, the travel notebook got
neglected, the promised made to myself that I would write later or when I
was less busy forgotten. Before I realized, I had left it too long
& I was several trips behind already to remember the details, or
not sure whether I'd got the names or places mixed up or mistakenly
matched up with the events. I was then always too busy.
Changing
later to live in 4 different countries didn't help. Many little notes
got mixed up or lost through all that cross country moving. My travelogue died a premature death after a couple of years.
Now I got all the time in the world but, alas, no more offers of paid trips!
Tags: travelogue, laketahoe
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