Stay at home Traveler

I'm enchanted with the idea of travel writing about places near and far from the comfort of my own home. I am currently in the process of collecting as many brochures as I can get my hands on and organize them according to the states that are furtherest from where I am now and keeping on hand the places in the states closest to where I am now. It's pretty fun.
I also will be hanging up LOTs of maps around our place so other people who come over, will want to go to those places that I am advertising. Or at least day dream about going. :) The joys of travel. There is nothing like it. To be able to go and see all those places you have read about. The places that are widely advertised to make us want to go to them. Like tropical islands or the nearby cityscape that is within an hour drive. Or even the mountains which widely surround the area like they do here in Chandler, AZ.
The desert has a loveliness to it that is hard to compare to anything else. It has a little of everything. Lots of big cacti and palm trees. Less rain with lots of flooding at times. Little bits of big mountains all around. It never gets old but I do miss the South. I miss all the things about the trees and rivers. The greeness. It was like paradise. So very different from Cali and Az in that way. My favorite is probably still New Mexico. Just a neighboring state now. And maybe Oklaholma City. I would enjoy a visit there sometime to explore the area. I only saw bits and pieces of there intriguing cityscape from the interstate but I hope to return there sometime. It's funny, but I was hoping to avoid that state all together on our second trip in the U-haul truck coming back and that is the state I loved the most. I never had gotten to see it during the day until this time around. I haven't given up on traveling. To do that, would mean I'd given up on being alive.
I hope to return to the South someday but until then, I will write about it. The grass is always greener on the otherside as they say. You just don't realize how much you loved a place until it's gone. It's the same as it is with people. Or how much a place has grown on you when you know you won't be seeing it everytime you step outside and drive around town. Here's to the South who has suffered so much this year in flooding but is still so beautiful. I'll love you always.