I’ve been planning our summer adventure in Europe, the remake of the 2020 trip we had to cancel. I have reservations spread out between my email account, Airbnb, Expedia, United Airlines, and EasyJet, so I felt the need this evening to consolidate everything into one document.
I made a copy of the document I created in the winter of 2020 and began replacing the doomed plans with the hopeful new ones. Some of the spots we plan to hit are the same, but much has changed. Instead of nearly three and a half weeks, it’ll be two and half. We’ve scrapped Morocco due to a diminished sense of adventure and greater time constraints. We’re still renting a car and driving down the coast of Portugal and into Spain, but I just don’t have it in me to work in Morocco. I’m telling myself that we’ll make it someday.
The initial impetus to go to Spain is to visit friends of ours who are stationed in Rota, so we’ll stay with them for a few days. We’re just barely making it to them before his change in command the week after we leave.
As I deleted rows and revised dates and places in the new document, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of doubt that this will actually happen. I managed to snap out of it, told that nagging little voice to stow it (where in the world did I pull that Flo reference out of – you know, from Alice?) and aggressively deleted the column I added in May of 2020 entitled “Cancelled/Refund Received.” We won’t be needing that this time.
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