Home (a.k.a. the starting point)

Hello! Welcome to my blog. I have two things in life that I am totally passionate about: books and traveling. I decided to make this blog about the later; however, I may have some book stuff scattered through as well. Now that I think about it, I may start with some book stuff. My favorite book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Actually, Jane Eyre is where the name of this blog (Wandering Feet) came from. The following quote is one of my favorites from the book. I will give you some background for the quote in case you have never read the book. Jane has been away tending to a sick aunt who died. She returns to Thornfield and on the way she comes across Mr. Rochester sitting along the path, writing in his notebook. After some conversation about Jane being absent from him a whole month and forgetting him while she has been away, he says the following: 'Pass, Janet,' said he, making room for me to cross the stile: 'go up home, and stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend's threshold.' I have always loved that feeling of home. I love to travel and I am excited about being someplace new but after a few days, I am ready to "stay my weary little wandering feet." I once met a woman who had been married to a truck driver for over 30 years. As we were talking, I kept thinking that I don't think I would like to be married to someone who was gone all the time. When our conversation was drawing to a close, I asked her if it was hard to make a marriage work with her husband gone all of the time. Her reply was something I will never forget. She told me that if her husband was never gone, she would never have a chance to miss him. I think that is the way I feel about home. If I never left it, I would never have a chance to miss it and appreciate its comforts fully. Now that we have established a starting point (home), we can move forward. I want to share my travel experiences with you. In future blogs, I hope to post pictures and stories from neat places (and some not so neat places) I have visited. I hope that you will share your own travel experiences too. With all of that being said, I want to leave you with a picture. This picture should probably be at the end of a future blog but, since I have been talking about that longing for home, I feel this is the perfect place for it. When I returned from a trip to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I found this waiting for me at home. It is always nice to be missed. Talk to you next blog.