Here's why I'm not going to Scotland

[np_complete]

Well, I said a while back that I might be going to Scotland. I was going to go with my friend F., who you may remember from the incident in the first days of 2011 when he broke my heart.

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[frakup]

Oh dear. Well, I'm sorry you're not going to go with F, but I think you should go sometime on your own if you want to. In summary, Scotland, yay! Scotland with other people that would make your trip more stressful and less fun, nay.

[np_complete]

Scotland, yay, indeed!

I'm not going to go -- there are all kinds of reasons why it's not a good idea right now, including that I already told all the work people I'd notified that I didn't need the time off after all -- but I will go sometime.

[glory_jean]

Eek. I agree that the whole thing sounds messy.

[np_complete]

As F. describes it, it's less messy than it sounds (see my subsequent post). Other things are messy, though.

I won't be going; I'm going to save my money for my trip to New Zealand in a year or so.

[lolaraincoat]

Run away, little Sparky! Run!

(Seriously, in a completely different context I just had this revelation: if I wanted to go to New Orleans, I could just, you know, go to New Orleans - no need to embroil myself in dubious, complicated schemes that would include almost equal expense, annoying applications for travel funding from my increasingly stingy workplace, and committing myself to spending time at a conference of little interest to me. So...)

[np_complete]

Yes! You are right! We don't need excuses to go places we want to go to!

I will say that I would like a companion if I went overseas, for, well, companionship, as well as moral support and reality checking. I don't enjoy being a solitary tourist, particularly if it's a place where I don't speak the language very well.

Are you going to New Orleans? Cool! I was there probably in the early 90s, and loved it, loved the way history was piled so thickly there.

[lolaraincoat]

I've been to New Orleans once, briefly, a few years ago and really really enjoyed it. So much music everywhere! I was planning to go to the annual meeting of the American Historical Association there this winter, but they rejected a panel I was meant to be commenting on, so then I was thinking I would go to the conference anyway, but then I thought, fuck it! I could just go to New Orleans and *not* go to the conference.

But then our panel might end up being accepted after all - it's a long story - so I'm back where I started.

I actually enjoy travelling solo in some contexts, mainly when I am going places where I have contacts already of some kind (yay fandom! yay academia! yay my large and peculiar family! - thanks to them I have people to look up literally around the world) or else just travelling by car, and have only really gotten to like travelling in company since taking up with fishwhistle. Even then it took us a while to compromise on what kinds of travel we wanted to do together.

And having said that - I was so hoping that adulthood

[np_complete]

I hear ya. The first thing I heard about you from fishwhistle was that you liked long drives to nowhere. I wrote back, "Gee, that sounds like me!" because I've always done that, but the truth is that I only really like long drives to nowhere if I'm doing the driving.