OMG insatiable wanderlust! I need, NEED, need to leave the country! I haven’t had it this bad in a while, but there is only so much midwestern farm culture that I can handle before I start to lose it. I also just watched “Blood Diamond” so that doesn’t help matters either. I want adventure. I want to go to the Himalyas and Brazil and Indonesia and Africa and Patagonia, and anywhere! Montreal is looking like the only place within reach at the moment so I just might do that…practice my French. But I want the adventures that inevitably accompany travel in the developing world…waking up to roosters on beds and getting a van full of tourists stuck in the mud for an hour, getting lost on hills of coffee trees, swimming in the Nile…Oh dear lord I never stop. Why can’t I just settle? Why??? Ahhh, I haven’t been to an airport since January and we are now in April! That is 3 months without being on an airplane. This is some sort of anomoly. I only have five more weeks in Iowa, I can survive that, right? Five more weeks and then I get on a plane for New York, and then I can go to Montreal, and then I drive off to D.C. to leave Iowa for good. No more ties to the corn fields.
