Destination: Imagination

Imagination Vacation #1:

Let's take a walk through an exotic poppy field. For what appears to be miles, poppy flowers are in bloom. A quiet buzz of pollenating insects stir in the steady breeze. The flowers ebb and flow like small waves. AND THERE YOU ARE! You emit peace from your pores and take in the fragrant air. Nothing could stop you from feeling deep abiding joy. Not even that considerably large heroin factory whose militant workers protect and cultivate the poppy field. NO. You are soaking in sunshine and when an alarm sounds on the plantation, you simply lie down amid the flowers. This region is wraught with territorial wars between competing drug cartels. As bazookas begin to blaze overhead, you find a pleasant sensitivity between your body and the shattering rumble of the earth beneath you. The delicate vibration lulls you to sleep. And you dream about fluffy bunnies and pecan pie with Cool Whip.

How was your trip?

Imagination Vacation

Distant places, places I've never even been, are shouting my name on top of a mountain in Uzbekistan. I fear I'm not alone. Numerous friends have expressed similar desires to get the hell outta dodge. Dinner conversations frequently derailed by grand ideas to portage canoes in the BWCA or visit friends abroad. Then the disturbing realization that this conversation is not best served with over-priced beer and gourmet organic food. Traveling can be cheap, but it takes a sturdy financial commitment nonetheless. I was less than surprised when an ambitious traveling itinerary designed over FujiYa sushi demanded this grounding observation.

Yet, a new and inspiring cure for the travel bug enlightened my raw-fish eating friends. IMAGINATION VACATIONS. As tour guide, I took five people on an adventure through a hot, humid jungle brimming with life and peril and primitive peoples practicing drug-induced rituals. There was a man-eating jaguar and little marmosets stalking in the trees. YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE.

To celebrate this new form of adventure-travel, I would be pleased to take YOU on an imagination vacation. ANYTIME. ANYWHERE. ANYHOW. This just might inspire a revolution in the tourism-industry. Don't complain or ask questions or you can go home! Just shut-up, close your eyes, and get ready. More to come . . .

Listening ~ Delta Spirit's Ode to Sunshine Album is off the hook.

Reading ~ Coetzee to abandoned bunny rabbits(a.k.a. Bro-nnies Robberts)