just call me a…

by dawn ~ March 11, 2008

Michael Faris writes about his current & future travels and how he is being labeled a jetsetter.  I can completely empathize with him.

It’s funny how this topic has been coming up. Just the other day a friend asked me about all of the traveling I’ve done in the last six months and where I’m going next. So, my list:

July 2007: Boston (conference); Troy, NY (campus visit); NYC (vacation); Long Island (family)
September 2007: Minneapolis (campus visit); Raleigh-Durham (campus visit); Greenville, NC (campus visit and friends)
October 2007: Phoenix (family); Tucson (campus visit)
December 2007: Loveland, CO (family)(x2)
January 2008: Phoenix (family)
February 2008: Minneapolis (campus visit)
March 2008: Phoenix (family)
April 2008: New Orleans (conference);
June 2008: San Diego (family)
July 2008: Loveland, CO (family)

This doesn’t include my little side trips that I take for photography. This weekend I went up the Lees Ferry on the Utah-Arizona border. I go to the Grand Canyon often, as well as the cities around here: Williams (last weekend), Winslow, Holbrook, Petrified Forest, Wupatki, Jerome, Sedona, etc.

I was telling this friend that I like to hop in my car and go. It doesn’t matter where — I just get a bug to travel. On Saturday I meant to go to Tuba City, a town only about 1 1/2 hours, instead, I ended up at Lees Ferry. It was actually a good thing because I had forgotten that they had released water through the dam and the Colorado River was really high — which made some interesting photographs.

I don’t always travel by jet, so I’m not sure I can be classified as a jetsetter (and, honestly, the plane that leaves Flagstaff is a twin-prop, not a jet at all). So, I’m a jet, twin-prop, train, car setter. Heh.