travel is ...

Travel is essentially what I do.

I make plans for one trip while working out the details for two or more upcoming journeys in my mind. I can drive my near and dear crazy - I know - but it seems I need that next travel experience much like a junkie needs another hit.

It's often an assignment which dictates my travels, or a professional meeting with other travel journalists, but occasionally I hop a plane to visit a son, daughter-in-law and grandkids in Orlando or Houston. I just returned from a four-day trip to Las Vegas with one son, his wife and their 12-year-old son. It was a great few days and taking my grandson to see Terry Fator at the Mirage, (it was family fare,) was great fun.

Now I'm planning a quick trip to New York then a car trip home with a friend, stopping along the way to visit other friends in North Carolina. I have one deadline this Friday, another the 24th so my trusty laptop travels with me.

As I said once before, I'm a travel junkie. It's tiring, but someone has to do it........