This week:

My niece, nephew, sister-in-law (I like the english term) and brother moved - they now live only a 15 minute drive away. Excellent!
Work at work is done & machine has been mothballed.
My dad has been in and out of hospital.
My dsungarian hamster and last pet has passed away today.
I´ll be flying to Ecuador in less than a weeks time.
Christmas is just around he corner ;).

Cannot complain about boredom.

"When we remember we all are mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain, 1857

Hodophopbia = the fear of travel.

Mixed emotions right now, love travelling but am nervous because I don´t feel well prepared for the next journey, due to a shortage of spare time recently...

I guess it´ll all turn out allright, it always did yet ;).

And, another one by Mark Twain (and an all-time favorite of mine) "“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear”

Once I´m at it :
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

coffee?

after yeras of trying to be in bed early on sundays it feels extremely weird trying to stay awake - nightshift on monday. training for travelling down under :) ?

Fernwehattacke

The english language is definitely incomplete, it´s missing a word for "Fernweh". It´s like being homesick but the other way round - a longing to travel & be far away. Dictionary says itchy feet, wanderlust (which sounds german but isn´t, really) or travel bug.
But those don´t hurt, do they?
Anyway, got a serious Fernweh-attack right now.
Want to go, faaar away. Now-ish. Tasmania would be nice. Australia, too. Guess Portugal (never been) or Greece (spent there almost 4 months in total, working with sea turtles) would do.
Btw.: It´s also missing an expression for a song being stuck in in your head, and one of my life´s missions is to introduce the word "earworm" into english ;).

Whoever said you cant buy happiness...

...forgot about puppies!

Photo session with cooper, a labrador-vizsla mix and his howners, colleagues of mine