A cold day in Vesenaz Switzerland, but the café was warm. Because we three are in the same country, Julia, whose prompt it was, could wait to share the prompt. She even waited till we'd finished out espresso, tea and chocolat chaud and scrolled through her photos until she found this.
Julia's Free Write: Life is not the only unforgettable journey
I am a traveler: we traveled for business; we traveled for family.
Living as we did, my husband and I, miles from our blood families – his 700 miles one way, mine several thousand the other way, we traveled a lot so that our children could know their cousins.
Then there were the business travels, sometimes pure business where we only saw the insides of hotels and conference rooms, others where we were able to mix tourism and business. It helped that our business was in tourism!
Over the years I have discovered many unforgettable journeys, that of marriage, that of having children, that of losing loved ones, that of medical journeys.
Still one and all they are all part of my life’s unforgettable journey.
Rick's Free Write
She had always wanted to take a cruise around the world. He hadn’t.
So they did.
She reveled in the four-month trip. He sulked.
They ate. They danced. They ate. They played shuffleboard on deck with strangers. They ate. They swam. They ate.
Every couple of days they got off the massive ship to explore an exotic port-of-call.
They ate. She shopped. They ate. They got back onboard.
They ate, danced, swam, played, until the next port-of-call.
North America, the Caribbean, South America, Pacific islands, Australia, Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa, and finally back to Europe.
They saw every place they had ever imagined visiting – for 3 hours each. And ate every possible local dish they had ever read about.
Finally back home in their little French village, she described the cruise to their friends. He nodded and smiled.
She was happy. Their bank account was thousands of euros lighter
D-L's Free Write
Maya and Andrea were identical twins - looks were where the similarity ends.
Both did well in school with Maya being better in math and music. Andrea succeeded in history and English.
As adults they lived close to each other. They talked almost every day.
Andrea was always planning a trip, on a trip, or doing a tour talking about a trip. She'd gone on digs in the UK, saw cave painting in Tunisia, and wandered around India and Japan.
Maya, happily ensconced on hers and her husband's farm in Maine, was happy teaching at the University of Maine. Changes in her route left her stressed.
They were always together at Thanksgiving, happy and grateful for their lives the past forty years, even if their journeys were different.
Rick Adams is an aviation journalist and publisher of www.aviationvoices.com, a weekly newsletter reporting the top stories about the airline industry. He is the author of The Robot in the Simulator. AI in Aviation Training.
Visit D-L.'s website https://dlnelsonwriter.com, She is the author of 15 fiction and three non fiction books. Her 300 Unsung Women, bios of women who battled gender limitations, can be purchased at https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/300-unsung-women-d-l-nelson/1147305797?ean=9798990385504
Visit Julia's blog. She has written and taken photos and loves syncing up with friends. Her blog can be found: https://viewsfromeverywhere.blogspot.com/
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