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Stayed up until four a.m. drinking tea with strangers, never felt more at home. Our meandering tea high induced conversation made me think about the next few years of my life. I want to get back to China, off the beaten path, maybe photograph a wedding on a tea farm, anyone? I want to collect some southwestern art in Arizona, which will happen in December, when my husband I roadtrip and hunt near Flagstaff. I want to photograph mountain weddings, maybe in Arizona, putting that out there. And just because I have never been to France and have always been inspired by Paris in the early 1900′s, Gisele Freund, A Moveable Feast, Romaine Brooks, I want to fulfill the cliche of drinking wine in the afternoon in a Paris cafe. I can’t forget South America. Must find a way to get to all these places before it’s too late to have children. I think I have seven years before I’m all dried up. This is my sense of humor if you don’t know me. LET ME GET ONE THING CLEAR, I don’t want to travel to f*** around and be lazy, I believe in hardwork, doing, making, contributing, whether that is in the form of art, teaching, volunteering, or living with awareness. So I am on a quest to find the appropriate ways to make these travels happen with my husband. My husband has always been so inspiring to me as he has traveled for work and pleasure. And being a teacher he always brought back narrative and photos to his students. He has been to Vietnam, Thailand, China, Nepal, Latvia, Belarus, and Cuba. Sadly, I could not travel with him due to work and school, except a two week stint in Hong Kong. So I hope this time around we can find work in other countries together. Here is to making this happen and more tea parties.
Katie - Definitely try to do some of these things before you have kids but also don’t think that life and travel are over once kids are in the picture. Sure you’re tied to home for the first few years, but someday the world will open up again. I plan to do many of the same things, but to share them with Jake and Naomi as well as Albert. I’ll love seeing the world (literally) through their eyes!
Crystal - Oh Katie you are so wise and encouraging! Dain and I have a plan to travel with kids too, and I think Dain will be good at being patient and creative with young minds on an airplane or in the streets of Paris. I also think it is amazing to explore with your children and view the world from their perspective. I love that we are traveling to the outerbanks in August with all of our close friends and their/your babies, this trip will be better because of the children. But for now I do want to be able to travel more for work to and live for periods of time in a new place, even though I love home and my garden, dog, stability.
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