The Time to Travel

Today I am sitting in an airport, on a layover, waiting to make my next flight for work. There have been a lot of these lately. It has been a crazy year. I've traveled a good ten times for work, six trips have been since I got married.

Things that have defined this year for me when traveling are Pay Day candy bars, Monster Energy drinks ( a new found love of mine), dramemine, Audio Books, a  special interest in the American Revolution and its history, Alan Jackson music, driving in a rental car to gather soil from each state I pass through.

I've had the opportunity this year to gather soil from:

• White Sands, NM
• Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Washington State
• Maryland
• Virginia
• Delaware
• Idaho
• New Jersey
• Missouri
• Oklahoma
• Arkansas
• Kansas
• Minnesota
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Wisconsin
• Tennessee

This in addition to the last couple of years':

• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Kentucky
• Indiana
• Colorado
• New Mexico
• Texas
• Arizona
• California
• Wyoming
• Nevada
• West Virginia
• New York

I'm grateful for the chance to travel, and some times frustrated by the tedious nature of its bureacracy and the various hoops I find myself jumping through to do it. Life is good though, long waits in the airport afford a good chance to think and read about things I normally wouldn't have the time for. Laptop battery allowing, I am trying to make good use of this time today.