My time in Australia is dwindling (my flight home is next Wednesday) and the thought of retiring this blog makes me strangely doleful so I've decided to change its purpose and thus its name.
There are so many neighborhoods, museums, shops and restaurants in my hometowns of New York and New Haven that have escaped my attention because I'm hubristically looking at them through the eyes of an insider. I realize now, after having fully embraced tourist status in Sydney, that my relationships with my hometowns are not as intimate as I have always deludedly believed they were.
Ergo, I aim to constantly maintain the tourist mindset. This does not mean that I plan to stock up on "I Heart ______" T-shirts everywhere I go or sleep in a fanny pack.
Instead it means that I aim to perpetually engage with my surroundings whether I'm at home in the Big Apple or traveling to the Big Pineapple (a town in Queensland, AUS which unfortunately didn't make the itinerary this trip.) The entries will probably be less frequent (a gals gotta relax sometime) but promise I will write!
To consecrate this vow, I've written a very original oath:
I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of travel blogger and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the Travel Blogosphere.
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