Travel is ...

Travel is..

Sometime all consuming - or like that wedge of really gooey chocolate cake - too much of a good thing.

In November I sailed on three cruises, flew back and forth from South Florida to San Francisco for a trade show and for Thanksgiving went to Orlando to my son and daughter-in-law's home. It was too much. I spent most of the past month exhausted. The holidays were on their way so it was time to arrange greetings and gifts and prepare for visiting children. Days off were few and far between.

I last wrote this blog in mid-November, I returned to the gym today for the first time in about six weeks and slowly but surely am getting back to what seems to be normal.

Then I look at the calendar and see we're almost at 2010 and the numbers are numbing! I can't believe we have gone through a decade already and will be beginning another one in 10 days.

It is a time in travel when things seem to be slowly looking up; hotels and airlines are making positive noises about the future and the cruise business is busy building new vessels. Now that I've started to play catch up I look at the future and am already making travel plans well into the new year.

The beat goes on. My 2010 resolution is to keep dancing, but to a slower beat.