Have you ever just wanted to buy a plane ticket and just escape to an island..or just get out of town..maybe go to Vegas..see something incredible? Whether its a stripper who can do a headstand while balancing a tray of drinks with one hand, or a beautiful beach where you almost feel you you could touch the sun? I am not sure if I have just seen too much in life to live in the burbs (used to a country/city girl) or if just like poets to get bored easy.. or maybe its just me.

I never thought about it being the poet in me that makes me restless and makes me get bored easily. I have a hard time staying in one place for long and if I do end up stuck somewhere I constantly make changes to my personal environment. I have been to most of the states and Canada and parts of Europe including Germany. My mom always said I had itchy feet. Do itchy feet make us poets or is it a part of the poet to be a wanderer or gypsy?

I like stability. I need the comfort of certainty, something to count on..so I can run away for a while, see and experience something bold and new, and know that I can go home when it's over.

I don't know how or if that relates to my being a poet.

I always ache to go to different places and do different things. Eat different food, listen to different music, meet different people. One could write a poem about difference. I wonder if it's been done? When you repeat "different" it's such a strange word. There must be some point in that, somewhere. I need to go looking for it. Ow.... I can feel a poem coming on....

Everything I need is within 50 miles of where I live. I don't see a need to travel at all really. I've never been one for "wanderlust". Home is where I belong and where my heart is as a person. Why go anywhere else when no where I have ever visited can compare to the natural beauty of where I live?

The idea of buying a plane ticket and going somewhere else just doesn't interest me. First off - the plane ticket could be pretty expensive. I'd much rather drive somewhere (of course, that's expensive anymore too). Vegas would be boring to me as I don't gamble - I work too hard for my money to throw it away.

Now seeing a stripper do a headstand with a drink of trays in one hand would be rather fascinating - but I can't say I get bored easily either. I guess it's different for different people - but I'm with Hugh on this one. I like stability of knowing where things are and knowing where my place is in regards to things I know and am familiar with as well (being comfortable in my surroundings).

I don't have anything in the world with different cultures and different places - in fact I find a great deal of it to be interesting. But, I'd settle for being able to properly capture my personal culture and surroundings that are part of my life on a daily basis as opposed to writing about strange lands and exotic people. I'm satisfied to be in my social element.

If I never traveled more than 50 miles away from home for the rest of my life - I'd honestly be okay with that too. Being a "stranger in a strange land" is just not my thing.

I do love food though - so I'm always open to trying a new dish.

j.p.

my goodness, yes! if i didn't have a family to care for, i'd be traveling constantly...just got back from jamaica, actually...i always want to experience new things, even if it's only a new food or hardware store...there are things to be discovered everywhere, but to go somewhere you've never been...well, everything is new and exciting...

i crave stability and structure as well, but i also love to travel and explore, see things for myself rather than read about them. i wouldn't call it wanderlust, just a need to discover and experience first-hand.

mindtrawling - a free ticket to ride anywhere (your mind can take you) and keep all the home comforts? heh


more seriously. slightly. - after years of substantial travel - and i mean substantial - im a truly grumpy old man and the processes and prospects of that -more substantial travel - have been a complete turn off. other than the odd escapade to a tranquil indian ocean island. travelling through and during the height of security issues during and after 911 did not help. so for almost a decade i have avoided any kind of substantial travel.

putting all of that finally aside and doing a trip to europe recently, (using some very clever travelling tips to minimise my pains) i was literally overwhelmed at again being at both fed and nourished mentally. i (again literally) cried whilst standing in front of van goghs - wheatfield with crows:




...and is not my (very unflattering ) over-flushed jubilation just ever-so-obvious, simply standing next to a jackson pollock in the pompidou museum of modern art?





...and my simple joy @ being able to moon the dutch:








so yeah. more isnt off the cards. whoda thunk!

I live in DC saw wheat-fields when I was 17, it is truly breath-taking. I was raised in Rome and by the time I was 8 I had travel round the world.. I also lived in Vegas, Philly, Texas.. and took trips all over. I too love a road trip! I wish I could do one, I have back problems so its hard for me to drive, but had some great news..so hopefully soon!!
I love stability, but seeing the same thing every day isn't stability for me I guess..I call that monotony... Stability for me, I guess is being with the same person for 6 years..not needing to be married but sharing space and knowing that its going to be like tomorrow..
Once a year I actually have to get out of town or I just go nuts (any where from 2 weeks-to a 1 month, most of the time I leave the man at home..I enjoy missing him, I know that sounds weird)..however, this is a massive improvement.. before him, it used to be once a month.. (small mini trips). But then again Northern Va is where yuppies go to breed....so I have excuses for escaping lol.