Italy in three days. I'm looking forward to the 14 hour flight. I never thought I'd think that, but to have all that time to do absolutely nothing seems like a luxury. I'll read, listen to music, catch up on podcasts... maybe play some Nintendo DS. Freedom at 30,000 feet.
I just need a break. I haven't had a real vacation in 7 years. I've been on long weekends, and 5 - 7 day road trips, but nothing this substantial. There's always work to do. I've written about that before, and my feeling's are still the same. But with this trip, this trip is different. I've been planning it for a year. It's paid for. I originally planned it for the holiday time because at Yahoo! Shopping, it's the slowest two weeks of the year. Not so with Wink, but there's not much I can do about that...
The past two years, those two weeks have been creative high points. It's usually time that I can think about the bigger picture. Maybe that will still happen in Italy, or maybe I'll just eat my gelato and shut up.
