310809 – 12. Sober and in need of adventure
Yoo Hoo,
It’s me here. Seriously though, who else where you hoping to find here, on my blog? So it’s a blog again is it? The truth is I still have no idea. I’m still writing to myself currently and so I suppose it isn’t but I won’t tire you once again with the whole not having a website thing currently as by the time you are reading this I will have and it won’t be relevant to me at that point in time. I’m also likely to have several children at that point and just to put some perspective on that last sentence for you, I haven’t had sex with a woman for a very long time and so for me to have several children at the time of you reading this will make this at least 9 months into the future, and that’s based on the assumption that I’ll have sex this evening, which I won’t. I’ll move on now shall I?
It is 3pm, on an overcast, clammy, bank holiday Monday and just down the road in Liverpool, there are lots of people having fun, getting drunk and listening to live music as they have been for the whole weekend. I’ve just returned from Liverpool, but I wasn’t having fun, getting drunk or listening to live music. The reason for this is that today marks the second week of abstinence Andrew and a sober Andrew isn’t inclined to stand amongst a lot of fun having people, retching from a weekends alcohol intake whilst listening to bands that all sound alike. This Andrew is a boring Andrew and I should probably hate his guts, but I don’t.
What is certain though is that I am need an adventure of some sort to re-awaken the inner beast within the outer beast and so in the spirit of my list I’ve decided to plan some holidays for next year to a) give me something to work towards and plan for, b) give me something to write about and, last but not least, c) get me out of the country, away from my desk and in touch with new people, experiences and sights. I long for the last one, daily.
Where to go though? I’ve always fancied India, the colours, the smells, the sights, sounds, and the craziness of the volume of people living in such small areas. The whole raj thing also appeals to me, crumbling relics of a bygone era. I currently have a tingling down my spine at the mere thought of it and I’ve never been. I had planned to go to India this year before I decided to leave my job, security and money and even bought some books, and a map, which I’ve just found on my desk. What kind of person buys a map of India? This kind of person, that’s who. I had planned to book a flight and a couple of hotels and just make my way across northern India by foot or train. Anyone who knows me will know how radical the idea of me walking is but I guess it could be fun and just the type of excitement I am looking for. There it is, decided, and about to go on the list:
13. Go to India in 2010.
But, there is another trip that I also fancy making next year and again something that I had planned to do this year before, well you know what before means and so I’ll not repeat myself. Go across Europe overland. Now, I can’t drive and so by overland I mean by train. Me being me I had bought a series of books and checked out prices and had a little route planned. Liverpool to London, London to Paris. Paris, via overnight sleeper train, to Italy, and so on and so forth through another 7 countries and eventually back to Liverpool. Wait there a minute, what is this on my desk, another map? I was evidently very intent on doing this if I’ve bought a map. But I couldn’t could I? I couldn’t go around Europe and go to India in 2010. Money would be an issue but then I suppose it would give me something to work towards and ticks the whole what I’m looking for off the list. Well it was on the list to begin with and so I suppose I should stick to it. Wait there a minute whilst I add the last one:
14: Go around Europe via rail in 2010.
I’m feeling more upbeat already and so I’ll be off now to plan how the hell I’m going to manage to get the funds together whilst being upbeat and read my book, still on ‘The Last Cigarette’, whilst being upbeat.
Right, so here’s the plan. I’ll see you back here at some point over the next week and will have developed my plan somewhat on how the hell I’m going to raise funds for some adventures next year. I will also have booked some tickets to the theatre as I plan to do that. I haven’t added it to the list as I haven’t been to the theatre for many years and so I’m not sure if I’ll like it enough to warrant doing it again. If I suppose that if I do, I’ll stick it on the list but then….oh forget it. Until next time I will remain,
day dreaming of hot air ballooning across India and thinking of her, the one that got away.
Take care,
Andrew