Finally, a day to catch my breath. A morning to get up without the aid of an alarm clock. A day that might actually be a day of rest. A chance to write and share with you some thoughts from our travels.
We’ve been traveling now for three weeks. Our travels have been unpredictable, and full of adventure. For the longest time I thought I wasn’t learning anything on this trip. It turns I am learning stuff: just not the stuff I thought I would or should.
Sure, there are the silly little things you pick up along the way. There are lessons to be learned like why you should pack your toothpaste in your checked luggage, or that Singapore Airlines provides razors in the toilets, or that you shouldn’t push your wife really hard on children’s playground rides. Those sorts of things are a given. What I didn’t expect to learn was that I’m wrong about some things.
There are things in life that I believed are true. Now, however, my eyes have been opened to the realization that there is more out there then I thought. I always thought that a Vancouver Island rain storm was about the worst rain storm around. Turns out we’ve got nothing on a Singaporian down pour. And I always thought that the road to Tofino is the twistiest road on the planet. Turns out that Highway 25 in New Zealand is even worse. I mean the corners on that state highway 25 will twist your brain around something fierce. It’s amazing Sheena wasn’t hurling in the front seat.
I guess this is the real reason we should travel isn’t it. I mean, imagine if everyone stayed in their tiny little region thinking that their surroundings are all there really is–thinking their roads are the wettest or the twistiest. Well, they’d be wrong for one. But even worse they’d be ignorant.
Tomorrow we fly off to the south island of New Zealand. I’m excited about what I’ll learn there. I’m hoping that we’ll see penguins and perhaps the truth of their surfing exploits will be exposed.
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