Tonight, I inadvertently Googled ‘Travelfortwo.net’. To my surprise, someone had referenced our blog recently and hence, their post popped to the top. Here’s what they had to say:
Crazy Jealous
Posted on October 13, 2008 by Ashley
Today, my friend K sent me a link to the blog of someone she knows. All I can say is, I hate them.I want that life.
Hmmm….I suppose we should be flattered? We do enjoy our life. But, lately I’ve been a bit less enthusiastic about it than before. So, I thought it’s worth posting about so that you–our friends–are privileged with a more balanced view. We tend to talk about the rosy stuff because we don’t want friends and family back home to worry. But I don’t want folks to step away with an stacked view of the tradeoffs of the life we live.
London’s not new any more. It rains one out of two days. It’s always grey (even mid-summer). We’ve been here for 2 years now and we’ve done most things at least once and we’ve exhausted most of the easy weekend destinations. Our thirst for travel has started to subside. And, hence, we realize now that we actually spend time in London that we need more friends 🙂 For the first two years here, we focused on making the most of our time–traveling all about and never sitting still because our initial plan was to leave after 12-24 months. Then, we regrouped and decided not to head home just yet and to adopt a more long-term focus.
But, recently my dad had a major accident on the farm. He walked away with a broken jaw and a bruised ego. He was very lucky. But then, a couple weeks ago (on the heels of my dad’s accident) my uncle died. There are friends and family back in the States that we haven’t seen in YEARS–we keep in touch through email, googlechat, blogs and postcards–somehow your margarita tailgates for VT games seem way more fun. Picking up and living so far away comes with tradeoffs. And it’s not always as glamourous and fun as it may seem.
So, I guess the purpose of my post is the balance the scales a bit. The grass on your side of the fence also looks quite green from where we sit. Hmmm…if only we could be fit without exercise, magically find a 3 bedroom house in Belsize on sale for £1, adopt your cutie tykes and forgo the need for drawn out pregnancies, have the cutest puppy on earth, have our stock portfolio returned to pre-recession levels AND keep the pleasantries of our current life constant…now that would be something worth envying 🙂
This said, we like our life. We’ll keep it. And hope this post finds you happy with the balance you strike in your life as well.
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