Wanderlust – A Haibun

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We are often asked if we had known then what we know now, would we have done things differently? I always answer “Absolutely not!”

No one really knows their destiny when they are seven years old, but somehow, I knew I would always travel. It started back then, as a child living in London. I would cut little sections from the Sunday newspaper where you could request travel brochures. I would save my pocket money and buy stamps and envelopes to make sure the beautiful catalogs would come to me in the mail. I would wait for the postman in anticipation of these free gifts that took me to far off, exotic places. So many used to arrive that my mother would get cross with me. She didn’t understand my passion.

As a grown up I had been fortunate enough to be work in the travel business. I worked for a major world airline and took advantage of every perk that came with the job. I traveled extensively. It was just after my son was born that we moved to the USA permanently and after a time where I raised our son and waited for a green card, my work in travel continued with the same airline. Then after a few years my romance with travel extended to working in the hotel world which took me to some even more exotic places. I have now been to all seven continents but have never lost the wanderlust. In fact I am traveling as much now as I was many years ago. So now you know why I would never change a thing. My life followed the course I had wanted since being that seven-year-old girl. As Aristotle said, “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”(or woman in this case).”

Wanderers aren’t lost
Their passion for travel burns
Deep inside their soul

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Merril is hosting Monday Haibun at D’Verse Poets. She has prompted us with traveling in time.

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

23 thoughts on “Wanderlust – A Haibun”

  3. Thank you so much, Nancy. You’re always so kind with your comments. I often think back to those days when I was a child and I can remember it all so clearly. I remember all those ads in the newspaper and just wanting him to know more about all of those places. I also had an uncle who was in the merchant Navy, and he was always coming back from somewhere amazing and he would bring us back things from Egypt and Japan and South America. I loved the stories he would share with us. Tell me, did you always know you would be a singer?

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  4. Your haibun took me back, Christine, especially the sections from the Sunday newspaper, which I remember sending off for a geography project. I love that you followed your passion around the world.

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    1. I had a feeling you would relate Kim. You must remember them. Tulip time in Holland, The French and Italian Riviera, Costa del Sol and Weekends in Paris. Do you also remember the £10 passage to Australia at that time? ☺️

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  5. Thank you for sharing your passion–literal traveling through space and time. It’s wonderful that you’ve been able to do what you love for your whole life. I love the glimpse of young you cutting out travel brochure ads, and how excited you were when the brochures arrived!

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  7. We share a similar professional history .. I worked in a large travel management company (corporate/leisure/group, for close to 20 years, the last five as the agency’s President. OH the travel I was able to experience, the cities, the people, inhaling all of it, never taking it for granted. So many wonderful memories. Thanks so much for writing this.

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  8. I like more the process of travelling in my imagination…. though I do love the process of walking long way…. for a while I travelled a lot in business, but I am pleased that it won’t be repeated.

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  9. I absolutely love this, Christine! I, too, love to travel. I hope I will eventually get to all the continents.

    Yvette M Calleiro :-)http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com

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