Hi
everyone, and welcome back to Too Many Books to Count! I’m so glad you
stopped by! I personally feel a bit like I’m caught in limbo between the chaos
of Thanksgiving (for which my aunt, uncle, and their four children were
visiting), and the insanity that always is the amount of things I have to get
done right before Christmas… so it’s nice to sit down and write a blog post, look to the future, and think about things that I’m looking forward to, in
the year to come.
If
you’ll recall, for the next two weeks we’ll be talking about things I’m
planning on doing, or things that I want to do or have "resolved" to do, in 2020.
They’re not resolutions, per se, because I don’t really make resolutions. But
they’re things that I’m looking forward to and planning on, when it comes to
2020, and they’re things that I wanted to share with all of you before 2020
gets here. Because sometimes it’s better to think about the new year before it
gets here ;-)
2020: Heading overseas
If
you’ve been around with Too Many Books to Count for a long enough time,
then you’ll remember I went to Europe for the first time in 2016, with my mum.
Well, in 2020, we’re going back!
I
think, if I’m being perfectly honest, this is the thing I’m most looking
forward to (maybe?), when it comes to next year. It’s something we’ve been passively
planning for a couple years now, and we’re finally less than a year away from
making it a reality.
I’m
slightly on the fence, when it comes to talking about it. Partially because
we’ve only been passively planning it, and so we don’t really know where all
we’ll be going, as of yet. But I did want to share with you a little bit of our
planning practices, and tell you a bit of why Europe calls to me, as much as it
does.
Don’t
get me wrong; I love the United States. I think it would be amazing to have a
house in the United Kingdom, but I don’t know that I honestly see myself living
full time outside the US. But, my family is very British. My dad
isn’t from the US, but immigrated here legally when I was a little girl. He
still speaks with a slight British accent, though he was pretty sure he’d lost
it by now, and he brought with him a great deal of British practices. Is he
from England? No. His family is of Indian descent. But if you know your history
and geography, you know how those two go together.
Going
to Europe, or going to the British Isles as we’re planning on doing next year,
is a bit like seeing the world that my dad knew, when he used to travel. Visiting
the United Kingdom, seeing places in England, Scotland, even Northern Ireland,
is like seeing the land from which so many of my family’s customs have come.
It’s also really, really fun to see so many places in person, that I’ve seen so
often on television (what? I like British tv).
My mum and I love to travel. We always have, and we probably always will, and we’re very set in the fact that we fully intend to travel together, overseas, as often as we can. Next year is going to be a great trip—and it’s not even twelve months before we hit the road.
What
about you? Are you planning any trips or vacations, in 2020? Wanderlust minds
want to know! ;-)
[love]
{Rani
Divine}
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