Since August, I have been away for a while. My daughter went off to
college... and I (read previous entry) was whisked off on an adventure to Maine
and on to Canada. I came back from the trip thinking and telling my friends,
"I really just want to travel."
The next thing I knew I was contacted by a woman who was looking for someone
to travel with her! This was an unusual job opportunity for me and it won me
over. I had interviewed for another position that would require me to
relocate to New York....it was a job that I had repeatedly pursued for about 3
years. The NY position was so appealing to me but when I actually went to
Saugerties, NY to meet the people I would be working with...and see the town
where I would live... I changed my mind. Maybe I just wasn't ready to move to
another state yet... or maybe this just wasn't the right position after all. I
came home and accepted the temporary job - traveling with a Turkish woman.
The job would involve traveling for 6 weeks to National Harbor, DC,
Marlboro, Mass, Seattle, Washington, San Mateo, California, Santa Monica, CA,
and then to Chicago. I looked at the calendar and I would be away from home
over Thanksgiving and my birthday...perfect.
I arranged for a friend and my parents to spend Thanksgiving with my
daughter... and started packing. I packed light for the first 2 east coast
trips - we would travel by Penske truck and I would be home 1 day off in
between shows. Three shows would be on the west coast so we flew to Seattle and
rented a car for our travel. After the Santa Monica show we would fly to
Chicago and then head back to Pennsylvania. The job by the way was setting up a
jewelry booth at an international gem and jewelry show - my job was to set up,
sell, pack up and travel.
These trips were interesting and I am still processing the experience. We
would wake up around 6 am and work until about 7 pm or later each day... I was
sick with a severe cold with flu symptoms - sore throat, aching, stuffy
head, coughing and sneezing for part of the trip - so I survived on Advil,
Dayquil and Nyquil...hot tea, lemon, honey, cough drops, water, coffee, soup...
anything I could get ahold of.
I was miserable.
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