Sunday, March 22, 2009

Lazy Sunday

After a day of gut-wrenching basketball, and a fruitless coffee pot carafe odyssey I have holed my self up in the cozy confines of 811 for a nice little Sunday. I woke up to find myself devoid of any coffee brewing mechanism, but as soon as the caffeine free sad haze cleared from my cortex, the wheels began to turn in old Duder's head.
I quickly mixed up some banana bread and set it in the oven to bake and brewed a pot of Mate. I nearly forgot about the delicious stimulant I had received upon my cousin's return from Argentina. It's strong odor and efficient stimulatory properties rapidly transported me back to walking through the colorful calles of BA and through the tombs of Recoleta, and the travel bug flared up in my system.
That brought me to take a gander at the various travel blogs linked to the NY Times website. Oh how I yearn for my next global journey, and luckily it's in the not too distant future....to Europe with John in late June. We are researching our Eurrail pass and plan to start in London before tackling a few of the cultural meccas of the mainland- Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, and Budapest. It should be great, we have no firm reservations save for our initial plans in London, and a return flight some three weeks later.
Well, then I think I am going to spend a few more minutes reading the blogs and looking at travel photo essays before I swoop over to take the banana bread out of the oven and pour myself another cup of mate. I think by that time my pulse should be sufficiently elevated to enjoy day 3 of march madness! Yeah, I am winning my bracket...it's great!