The ground is blanketed in white. The temperature is flirting with subzero numbers. I spend almost 2 hours per day staring at cars’ rears and 8 hours looking out at a parking lot (actually, there’s so much snow outside my cubicle window, I can barely see over the berm). While this is my current realty, there’s another reality that is unfolding – the realty that soon I will embark on a journey to Australia.
The dream in my head of palm trees and blue oceans and tropical fish feels out of reach. It’s crazy that it’s been months since I won a trip to Queensland from this entry and now it’s less than 3 months until I’m going on the vacation of my life. (more…)