Because I've been trying to make some plans for when I come back to the UK, I've been thinking about travel a lot recently. I think I lost the travel bug a long time ago. And that's a real shame. Lots of reasons for that: age, a lack of travelling companion, a lack of vacation days. There are still so many places in the world I would like to see. I've always said to myself that I would love to take a sabbatical from work and do some traveling when I turn 50. I'm almost there. But will I actually follow through with that? I doubt it. It's one thing to get laid off, but it's another to quit. And I'm not sure it's in my best interests to quit my job right now given the state of the job market. Perhaps I need to make better use of the vacation days I currently have. Most of them tend to get used up from trips back to the UK. But I think I need to be a bit more selfish and take a holiday for myself. To somewhere I want to go to, somewhere I've never been to before. It may be somewhere within the US, it may be somewhere abroad. I doubt it will be anywhere particularly exotic, because it's somewhere I have to be comfortable going to and doing stuff by myself. That is surprisingly restrictive. Maybe it's time to start completing my goal of going to every single National Park in the US. Particularly before Trump shuts them all down so that they can be ruined by mining/drilling/data centers.
