I used to teach preschool with a woman whose family was in the Forbes four hundred. She was one of my friends and the best coworker I have ever had, but the exotic levels of her life style exceeded mine by leaps and bounds. One of our long standing jokes was about my vicarious vacations. Through her I saw Keven Costner working out next door, watched famous paintings being recreated in real life and danced the night away in elegant gowns on many cruises. It was awesome.
I’ve never been on a cruise, although my sister and I often talk about where we will go and just what we’d like to see. We even discuss what we will wear! Who knows, maybe someday my ship will literally come in and we will just up and go!
In the meantime I am on another vicarious vacation and the beauty of these vacations is that I get to view them through another’s eyes and thoughts and feelings. In a way it almost makes up for not being there myself, because a peek into the life of another human being is a writer’s delight.
This time I am getting peeks of Cartagena, Colombia. You know, that city where Romancing The Stone started to get really interesting? A place filled with history that predates our whole country! Soon we will be going through the Panama Canal! Imagine that!
This time via email I see maps and stories as the trip moves along, even better than the old days in some ways. And the pictures! It is one thing to see someone mugging for the camera with their customary cuteness, but something else altogether to see them all decked out in their formal best. They’re almost a little intimidating then!
One thing for sure about vicarious vacations, they certainly eliminate all the sniping that accompanied some of my real ones. These are just one long delight.
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