My older travel blog is here:
https://thatstrangewoman.blogspot.com
The last entries on that site are hard for me to read now. There was a lot of loss in a short amount of time to deal with: my beloved sister in law Lisa, and my sweet Mamma of Venezia. I was so deeply unhappy in my own world on a number of levels and refused to acknowledge it.
I am so much better now. Life 2.0, you could say.
Hint: a lot of the credit goes to that guy I met on the ladder in that penultimate post. For those that don't know (and that would be impossible if you haven't met me in person or online) - surprise - I married him. Three years to the day of meeting him.
And that's partly why I changed the name of the blog...I am no longer Strange. Legally anyway. But why Boodja?
It was my nickname as a toddlerchild. We had a chicken and I would follow her around imitating her vocalizings: boodja boodja boodja. It became a name for both of us. When I was 18 I got it as a personalized license plate for my 65 Plymouth Belvedere, re-christening her the Boodja-Mobile.
So here we are on the eve of another trip. I haven't been to Italy since November of 2014. This is the longest time away from my beautiful city of Venice since I started going there in 2001. She misses me. We are hours away from reuniting.
I just need to get though this day and get everyone on the plane tomorrow. The challenge level of getting us there is minimal compared to the logistics of getting to this point, and we've weathered it thus far.
Gotta finish my to do list and packing.
~K!
