Just short of two hours left on this flight that is taking me to New York, I look outside the window over the clouds and think of the 30 days ahead of me travelling around the US.
Meeting friends and seeing new things along the way will certainly keep me busy, and I am happy of my decision to take some time off and to do this trip. At the same time, I obviously also wonder what it will be like to be on the road on my own for such a long period of time. Will I be bored? Will I feel lonely? What kind of people will I meet along the way?
I am a practical man that spends most of his time travelling around the world, so this is certainly not intended as a spiritual trip to find myself, even though I do have questions I bring with me that I hope this ”me” time and the long stretches spent looking out the window of a train somewhere in middle America will give me a chance to reflect upon.
This is also why this is intentionally not an exotic trip. The US is a comfortable, to a certain extent familiar destination. It’s a country I have visited many times for work and that I’d like to get to know better, and this is a great occasion to get to see cities I have not had a chance to see before.
One thing I have always enjoyed doing while travelling is visiting Art museums, so it made sense to build my itinerary with the objective of spending as much quality time as possible in some of the best Art museums in the world (which means you will probably not see me blog about the Statue of Liberty this time either 🙂 ).
Another American ”excellence” that I look forward to investigate further is ”breakfast”, so expect to see quite a few shots of breakfast burritos and French toasts along the way. Particularly in this department, I’d love to hear your best tips on the most amazing breakfast joints along my way 🙂 .
At the other end of the day, I have already put in my calendar quite a few gigs of bands I have mostly never heard of before playing in tiny clubs… That should be fun!
Guess it will be interesting to look back at this post on my way to Seattle airport in a month from now.
Ok, time to hit ”publish” so that I can brag a bit about blogging at 10000 feet…