2024-04-06 Travelling
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The last ten years, travels – even holiday travels! – have made me
more and more nervous. I used to be so cool about travel. We lived
abroad and travelled so much. And now I’d prefer to just stay in
Switzerland all the time. But my wife still loves to travel and once
I’m there, wherever it is, I feel OK again.

I can’t say what it is. A vague anxiety about everything. From the
smallest thing like it’s spring and I’m going to miss the next two
weeks of flowers, and the bees are all emerging from their reed tubes
and I hope our friend is OK with watering the gazillion plants we have
and I hope we didn’t forget anything and I hope security checks are
going to be OK and foreign dictatorship and secret services are going
to stay out of our lives and out of our phones and I hope we have
enough money for tips and how much does one tip again?

Back when I was about thirty I argued that equipped with a credit card
nothing else mattered. I’d just buy whatever I was missing. These days
we start our “packing mound” days beforehand.

Look how happy I am about the bees!

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