Possibly the dullest Saturday yet
While I’ve had a few ho-hum Saturdays since starting a predecessor blog in 2013, I think today will go down as the dullest yet.
As noted in my last post in March, I scrapped plans to walk the Via Francigena this past summer and I won’t make it to Vietnam, Cambodia or Thailand this winter. Like many of you, I am stuck at home, shaving once a week, and going through coffee, red wine and ice cream like there’s no tomorrow. I rarely know what day it is without checking so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that this particular Saturday was just another day.
To be honest I have managed to keep relatively busy over the last 10 months. Nothing exciting, but at least I’m occupied. In addition to Neflix and way too much CNN, I have completed a number of household and digital projects. The latest, which I completed earlier tonight, is a new gallery that you can find draped down the right side of the blog’s home page (or towards the bottom if viewed on a smartphone).
I have also been using my free time to research which countries are likely to be the first to welcome international tourists. I won’t be going anywhere until I have been vaccinated and even then it will be a matter of finding a country where my travel medical insurance is valid and backpacker style travel is practical. I’m not crazy about traveling to a country that allows 30 day visa free visits if one must quarantine for the first 14 days and then jump through multiple hoops before moving on to the next country and repeating the process.
While it might be possible to launch RTW2 in the fall, a more prudent approach is to remain in Canada until the Spring of 2022 which would set me up for another two months on the Camino de Santiago (Camino Frances) starting on April 1, 2022. That leaves me a little over 14 months to break off a pair of lockdown-induced relationships—with Radio Boka Tempranillo (red wine) and President’s Choice Candy Cane and Chocolate Crackle ice cream.
But since it’s still Saturday where I am, I think I’ll have one more wine and “just a tiny scoop” of ice cream. The rationing can start on Sunday. There has to be at least some joy in a Saturday night, right?
6 Responses to “Possibly the dullest Saturday yet”
Glad to hear that you are safe, healthy and bored like the rest of us.
Keep me posted, I too am getting restless for travel….the years are going by too fast.
Jane
Hello sir. The gallery update is excellent thank you – a fine use of stuck-at-home time. Deeply amused by the Goan Chicken Sandwich. And have been google earthing round the Ballestas for far longer than I expected of a day… Those cantilevered piers would be pants-filling to use I suspect. Cheers from the otherside of the locked down world, Grant
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 17:59, another100saturdays.com wrote:
> Mike Hamilton posted: ” While I’ve had a few ho-hum Saturdays since > starting a predecessor blog in 2013, I think today will go down as the > dullest yet. As noted in my last post in March, I scrapped plans to walk > the Via Francigena this past summer and I won’t make it to Viet” >
Hi Grant,
Great to hear from you. I’ve been following your fb pics even though the nice weather makes me envious and the sheep sheering made me sneeze from 15,000 km away. I regularly take a little trip via Google Street view but haven’t been back to the Ballestas Islands so will do that now. Thanks for the reminder! M
Beautiful gallery, Mike – especially when enlarged as a slide show.
I walk through all the floors of the building almost every night, even Saturdays. You are always welcome to join me! Not so exciting, but good exercise, and you never know what might turn up.
hey Mike it’s Sean, next time there’s an insurrection you want to come over and watch CNN with us :@)
With the lead clown having recently left the circus it should be relatively easy to wean myself off that habit. But thanks for the offer!