My Desires

We all have desires and fears and one will always win out over the other.

Most of my own fears come out when I am preparing for bed and waking in the morning.  I don’t always jump out of bed, thankful for the day, prepared to face it and the challenges it is sending me.  How about you?

But once I overcome myself, I remember what drives me, saving lives, helping others, and travel are my three big drives.  I talk much about the first two in these posts and during our Dr’s Report/Orientation, so I’m going to focus on the travel piece today.

I want to see the world.  There is so much to see, do, and be thankful for.  I know I can never get to it all, but I’d sure like to try.  I enjoy nature, it recharges me to be out among the trees.  Going for a day hike in the woods is a favorite past time.  I also enjoy scenery.  I love taking pictures from the car when we are driving or from an airplane as we come in for a landing.  The picture to the left is one of my favorites.  Though this one is from space, every time I fly over or around New York at night, I am in awe.

 

 

I also enjoy wildlife.  I love going to zoo’s and aquariums.  I want to get out to see the buffalo and Grand Tetons in Wyoming before I die.  I’d also like to go hiking in Yosemite and see the Redwoods.

 

 

 

I’d also like to go on an African (picture) safari.  To see the animals in their natural habitat.  To see a lioness hunt or a herd of wildebeest.  Disney’s animal kingdom may be the next best thing, but why do “next best” when we can go see the “real deal”?  Sure, it may be hot and I’ll get eaten alive by mosquitoes that are larger than my thumb, but it’d be worth a week or so of my life to see it all.

 

 

I’m a do-er, I like to go.  To me the majesty of a mountain is preferered to sitting on a beach… It’s just sand, it burns your feet, gets in your shorts, and uncomfortable to sleep on.  Still, it’s great to sit there and soak up the sand and “do nothing.” I think the perfect vacation, may be a tropical island where I can sit and do nothing, and then go for a hike.  My brother-in-law honeymooned in Figi and Bora Bora, and the pictures fit the bill:
I can go hiking along the ridge line one day while she sits on the sand and then we can swim or kayak in the water on the next day.

There are things I want to see also.  I’d like to see the Great Wall of China as well as their Buddhist and Taoist temples. I enjoy all things spiritual.  I also enjoy culture.  Not because I want to engross myself in another culture, but because I feel so secure in my own, that the experience of something different brings about a new-ness quality to life.  Life is to be experienced, not viewed from afar.

 

But my greatest passion is skiing.  I love the feeling of heading down the snow on the side of the mountain.  having spent my entire life on the east coast, I’ve never really skied in real powder.  I’d love to go the the Rocky Mountains or the Alps for a week and experience “real” mountains and “real” snow: