scarlet

i'm so excited! i just got home from hanging out with jill. she and i are going to PERU! we spent the evening planning and plotting. it was very fun. we're going to have a super fun time. we're going for two weeks, probably in july. we were originally planning on going in may, but we want to do the inca trail and all the tours are booked up. the peruvian government only allows 500 visitors entering the trail each day, and apparently people have to book three months in advance. so i have to email, gayle my travel agent, tomorrow to look into flights and check to see if she has any pre-booked passes into the trail, probably not but it's worth asking about. i'm super pumped. all the photos look beautiful. we had a good laugh at the 2-star hostels, but really aren't picky and are pretty flexible. however, we draw the line there – there will be no 1-star hostels for us, and those do exist. the hostels we found range from $6 to $36 a night. cool. it's going to be awesome :D

you might be wondering "why peru?". well... when i got thinking about going on vacation, i first thought of greece because i've always wanted to go there. but then i thought, maybe i should go to one of the continents that i've never been before, you know, fulfill part of that dream of mine. so then i thought of peru because i'd seen buddy's photos from his trip, and it looked breath-taking.

shan told me today that i'm a free spirit. i found that fascinating. she said i was made to be free and not stuck in a cubicle cage. she might be right. today i was so bored that i ached all over like i was heart-broken. i actually looked up boredom in wikipedia. i didn't realize that boredom was an emotional state, but it made total sense to me. totally explains why sometimes i feels like i'm dying inside. someday i might look back at the 6.5 years i spent working for a large international corporation in a 8 x 8 blue cube and wondered how i possibly lived thru it. sometimes i wonder that now.

you gave me these few words of advice;
don't let the idiots take you alive.