Everglades

Work takes me all over, which is a thing I am very grateful for, because I adore traveling and at this stage of my life, I do not have the means to save up for more than a day trip or a long weekend crashing at a friend's place. One day, after lots of frugality and dreaming, I will actually take, gasp!, vacation time to launch off to far lands and pretty locations.

One place I got to travel sans vacation time this year was the Everglades, Florida. We went down to the very tip of the glades, past Alligator Alley, to work with 3 communities there made up of no more than 400 people combined. Despite it being record-breaking chilly, it was still warmer than home, and so sunshiny it made me smile.

Though I love where I live and would not welcome the humidity that Florida usually has, I think if I lived in this place year round, I would definitely become an expert kayaker and certainly accomplish my goal of learning to sail a lot earlier. I'd even be tempted to crab, vegetarian that I am!

The Everglades marks my last trip for work in the 2010 year, which took me to Black Moutain, North Carolina, Caracas, Venezuela, Monterrey, Mexico, Baltimore, Maryland and now Florida. I am glad to have been, but even happier to be back and counting down the days until Christmas!