Northern Downpour

 
  I've decided that one of my problems (among many, *sigh*) lately is my lack of travel. Now, we've been in Virginia for two years now, which you'd THINK would be enough time to get me used to the fact that you drive two hours and you're still in the same state, looking at the same kinds of scenery, but for whatever reason it hasn't. And I think I did more driving around with Mom last year anyway. I miss that so much - driving up to Massachusetts when we lived in CT, and Vermont if we were lucky, especially around this time of year when we could see the pretty New England leaves; and going to Yankee Candle or Vermont Country store to stalk up on the products thy only put out in the fall. And even in the last two years, Mom would drive us over the mountains to Harrisonburg to visit the Mennonite stores, and get the fun fall stuff. And for the past few summers we've been all over the country and back.

  I love traveling, I really do, whether it's on a train, car or plane and I miss it so much. Usually I'm ok with counting down the days until my next traveling date, but for some reason that hasn't been cutting it lately for me. I'm itching to go somewhere - especially now that fall is here. There's just something in me that makes me want to e out traveling and exploring when the temperatures get crisper and the leaves change.

  It's a bit amusing to realize that I really do like the fall - I like my idea of fall. I like climbing apple trees, and the idea of corn mazes and hay rides (even though I've never been to either of those) and hot apple cider, and pumpkins, and scarves, and the pretty colours of the leaves on the grass when it's still green. I like hearing about when all the little kids are going to be for Halloween, and all the yummy smells that come from autumn-smelling candles, and baked good with pumpkin in them. People down here don't really have fall until mid-october, and the leaves haven't even started falling yet, for the most part.

  I don't understand myself. Here I am all depressed from sun deficiency, and cooler temperatures, yet I'm yearning for a place that gets much colder and much darker than it does here. It makes no sense. but I guess it's just one more thing in my life that makes no sense no matter how hard I try to fit the pieces together.

~thsingingprincess