WAITING FOR I KNOW NOT WHAT

Reading travel books about exotic places is a stimulating torture process. Even though we have vacation plans that actually involve travel this year, they are not, sadly, to somewhere we haven’t already been. After finishing the travel book that has taken me much longer to read than any book has a right to, I’m now yearning to explore European destinations I have yet to visit: Prague (yes, I know!), St. Petersburg, the Italian coast, more of Greece, Ireland, Wales, Portugal, France (when all I’ve seen is Paris). And that’s only grazing the surface. Poland! Croatia! Budapest and Zagreb. I’m not...