Watch This Space
In less than eight hours, Zach and I are leaving on a much needed, long-anticipated vacation. We'll be gone nearly three weeks.
The catch is that I don't have any idea where we're going.
Zach has planned the whole trip and succeeded in keeping our destination(s?) a secret for months.
Now, I did the same thing to him last year. But in that case, we were only gone for about a week.
If you want to know where we are, check back here: Zach has promised to put up a post with details as soon as we are en route.
I am hoping to put up at least a few of my own posts while we are away. And I now have a nifty (and very tiny) digital camera, so there may actually be photos as well.
We are both thrilled about the prospect of having so much stress-free time together. The trip is nominally a belated-40th-birthday-and-anticipatory-graduation present. But mostly it is a celebration of making it through the past two hellish years and a first step toward the happier times we hope are ahead.
The last time Zach and I went away together on an extended trip was 17 years ago, a few months after we first met. We spent 17 days traveling all around France, putting 2,000 miles on our little Renault rental, enduring a heat wave, and figuring out just how much we loved being together.
We think of that trip often—in many ways, it was the crucible of our relationship. I had no idea what I was in for when we jetted off to Paris on that summer day.
Of course, I have no idea what I'll be in for when we leave home tomorrow.
But I know who I'm in with, and that's all that matters.
The catch is that I don't have any idea where we're going.
Zach has planned the whole trip and succeeded in keeping our destination(s?) a secret for months.
Now, I did the same thing to him last year. But in that case, we were only gone for about a week.
If you want to know where we are, check back here: Zach has promised to put up a post with details as soon as we are en route.
I am hoping to put up at least a few of my own posts while we are away. And I now have a nifty (and very tiny) digital camera, so there may actually be photos as well.
We are both thrilled about the prospect of having so much stress-free time together. The trip is nominally a belated-40th-birthday-and-anticipatory-graduation present. But mostly it is a celebration of making it through the past two hellish years and a first step toward the happier times we hope are ahead.
The last time Zach and I went away together on an extended trip was 17 years ago, a few months after we first met. We spent 17 days traveling all around France, putting 2,000 miles on our little Renault rental, enduring a heat wave, and figuring out just how much we loved being together.
We think of that trip often—in many ways, it was the crucible of our relationship. I had no idea what I was in for when we jetted off to Paris on that summer day.
Of course, I have no idea what I'll be in for when we leave home tomorrow.
But I know who I'm in with, and that's all that matters.
posted by Jody Rosen Knower at 7:06 PM
1 Comments:
OOh, I'm so excited to hear where you are headed. I've always thought that the way you two honor each other's birthdays says so much about your sync-ness (?) as a couple; this trip has that aspect and so much more. I'll be smiling when I think of you -- often -- over the next few weeks. Lots of love to you both.
Les
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