Travel surprises, cozy spots & tender meals
fresh ponderings while letting it all sink in
As I write this I’m on a lime green bus, heading more north. Very little sleep in the system, but moving forward.
Much of the past few weeks have been on the move, time has felt full and dense. I’ve been thinking about what to write - there’s so much!
Each day, I experience something new, meet new people, and am surprised by something — all of this possible in everyday life, but more obvious when traveling. Ideas spark, take form, and shift. Dots connect, break and re-pattern. It feels raw and fresh, percolating slowly.
I accept that I’m not a live-tweeting, blog gal at the moment- so glad they exist! I trust that my travels are sinking into my cells, where they simultaneously stay fresh and cure with wisdom. The ideas, lessons, and inspiration are not bound by time or space- it spills into the future, into wherever I am.
Okay, okay, but I do want to share pictures and places with you, so I’ll indulge with some travel blog energy mixed with random thoughts (poetry?).
Enjoy, and thank you for witnessing my journey.
(not in chronological or location order :)) which sums up the beautiful memory soup in my body brain)
Lean into the open itinerary, admit to what you want and be open to possibility. Sometimes you end up at a rad campground in rural Italy, dancing and eating
Or at a delightfully irreverent statue in Milan with a quirky stranger
Cozy nooks await you everywhere. Curl up and be gracious. Definitely take a nap.
Pay reverence to beauty. Pause and soak it in. You get to choose what it is. (But really it’s all beautiful)
let yourself be fed by loved ones and strangers. We all deserve it, no questions asked. Eat and be grateful!
not pictured: many beautiful humans, mosquito bites, long ass bus/train rides :)
till soon!
peace,
em
Emily, these are awesome pictures. I'm partial to that stranger on a bicycle - and missed that statue in Milan. Must be post 2006. Love all the nooks you find for rest! I know all the words will come with these pictures, but you are right. It's not the one experience, it's the whole experience and each smaller one will fall in a place somewhere with you, probably changing over time :) LOL I have many pictures of my feet on the ground in Europe; built millennia ago and still holding us up - beautifully.