After seven hours on the train and a five hour layover in Penn Station, I got home just in time for the phone conference with my middle son’s teacher and my oldest son’s prom and I’m still not quite recovered from three and a half days away. I really do believe that for any vacation taken, you should be given an equal amount of time afterwards to recover from your vacation.

It’s going to take me the better part of next week to catch up on my sleep and unpack; I never unpack in a timely manner. I have to figure out how much money is left in the bank since I went away alone and at home, my husband continued to use our checking account, so I don’t know how that’s going to reconcile but must before I can pay the bills.

I went to visit my best friend, attend a fandom party for the Supernatural finale, met some Tumblr friends and got to wander around a recreated historical town as well as play around in the kitchen, meet the parents, see the gardens and taste things.

Because of such variety, hopefully I will have one or more postings to share with you. This kind of trip was really nice, especially for a writer. It’s as though I was on four or five separate trips and therefore it’s given me many prompts and inspirations as story starters:

1. Visiting friend

2. Fandom Finale Party

3. Touristy things

4. Traveling alone

5. Train travel

6. Food tastings

I’m not sure how many of them will see the light of day, but consider this my little brainstorm.

It was a very nice visit with normal stresses like getting ready for the party and making sure that I was entertained while he was at work, but it was truly a nice and special time for me and I think for him too.

I also managed to get the family a couple of souvenirs that were inexpensive as well as obligatory like pencils and candy for the kids and a shot glass for my husband. I collect pins so I made sure to add to my collection and was even able to replace my Welsh flag pin that broke a couple of years ago.

I think I forgot to mention that I have three pieces I need to write for workshop homework this week. There are two workshops, but three essays due, and as always I will try to post them here as well depending on how far they go into the personal realm. Without promising, I would also like to post daily since I do have so many ideas I’d like to write about from the trip and I’ve continued to collect prompts that I will use all through the summer until the next workshop starts up in the fall.

Tomorrow after Mass, reading the mail, making a school related phone call and two personal related phone calls, I will post something even if it’s a short something.

I’m looking forward to seeing you then.

Kb