Human Again!

I'm finally feeling like a human again! Human again, human again! ;) I swear, my biggest accomplishment last week was NOT calling in sick to work.  And oh, how I wanted to! But I made it through the week, had Saturday off, worked again Sunday, and then had Monday & Tuesday off. And now, I feel human again! :)

Seriously though, when I'm sick I feel like the walking dead.  Except all I really want to do is play dead-- stay in bed all day and attempt to sleep... Although we all know that I'm almost completely incapable of that, so instead I stay in bed all day (except for the several hours I spend driving to/from & being at work) snacking, hydrating, researching, reading, watching Netflix, doing treatments, snacking some more & then doing more research while listening to my epic Pandora stations.

So although it has been over a week since my last post, and it may seem as though I'm slacking in the "road trip researching" category of my life, fear not! It is still very much alive and thriving.  In fact, my library books are over-due because I didn't want to give them back until I soaked up all they had to offer, and I've already reached the limit for online renewals.  And instead of just dropping them in the book return (remember how I said I've been sick and things like stopping by the library come second to laying in bed feeling like a zombie) I've held onto them, probably accruing many late-fees, but certainly benefiting from their plethora of good information and road trip ideas.

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This post has been waiting in my "drafts" for the past few days with only those three paragraphs above.  I have since returned my overdue books (they were, thankfully, only one day late), and of course I borrowed some more.  There is something so inspiring about the travel section of a local library.  I'd really like to just take the whole collection home with me and immerse myself in the romance of some other traveler's experiences.  And study every detail of the routes those before me have taken to explore their world.  Or simply learn about every little thing there is to be seen, so as not to miss a single life-changing opportunity to discover something new (or at least new to me.)  If only so much more time existed in each day; time enough to waste (or in my opinion, use wisely!) escaping into daydreams about the innumerable possibilities of my fast-approaching road trip...

SSS: New Hampshire

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L I V E 

F R E E 

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D I E 

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I can't even imagine the forest colors when I am not seeing them.  I wondered whether constant association could cause inattention, and asked a native New Hampshire woman about it.  She said the autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate.  "It is a glory," she said, "and can't be remembered, so that it always comes as a surprise."

--John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America

Visit New Hampshire
NH Travel Guide

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SSS: Vermont

This week's state for State Study Sunday is...

VERMONT!

As excited as I am to share my findings from this week's research, I regret to inform you that I will not be blessing you with my "musts" for the Green Mountain State at this time.  Just wanted to make sure y'all didn't think I'd forgotten about my plan to post every Sunday...

...I'm exhausted & still sick & frankly, transferring my notes from my pretty journal to this mini iPad is the last thing I want to do right now.  So, I'm off to bed (with visions of pancakes drowned in Vermont's maple syrup dancing in my head.)  ;)