A Connection from Half Way Across the World

I’ve had trips cancelled on me but it is rare, in a reversal I have an upcoming trip that I was hoping could be pushed back. “Don’t Cry for me Argentina”, a trip from Chile around the Cape of Magellan to Argentina is a life dream for some. I am sure it will be amazing and I will fall in love in a big way. It has been a busy road for me this fall, from Chile to China, then onto Lithuania, Latvia ending in St. Petersburg. A few days later I was winging my way to Papua, New Guinea.

I am getting a bit off point here; my journeys are part of my work. I just wanted to let you all know how important any kind of connection with your life back home is, that email or FB message can lift me to the skies! I was once so against chat on FB, seemed to impersonal. I couldn’t have been more wrong! A perfect example is how one night at 3 A.M in Port Moresby, PNG I sat staring at my screen on FB just trying to feel connected. Suddenly the chat screen popped up and a close friend was, though half way across the world, there! I got to express my feelings about the road, the fatigue and loneliness I was going through. I learned a lot that night! The worst part of life on the road is easily cured by kind and soothing words, it matters.