Archive for July 7th, 2009
Here I am…
Made it on through. Got here safely and all things considered with a minimum of fuss. I’ve been recuperating and adjusting a little. Reports that Sylt is “like the Hamptons” or “P-Town” are pretty on the money: it’s got dunes and tourists and beach and marsh. It’s far enough north that the sun sets around 11pm this time of year. My sleeping times are still screwed up from the traveling.
All the anxiety in my last post was due mostly to the type of traveler I am: from the second I get underway to when I arrive in a place I can deal with any of the conditions that I encounter with equanimity: I’m unruffled by road delays or anything else. But before I leave I get easily wound up by not knowing what the conditions are. It’s silly and never any reflection on my hosts.
So it all is quite lovely here, and I’m sure that there will be more to say on that. The one snag is that I came here to draw, and you know how I did all that frantic packing? Well somehow in the process of doing that, I didn’t pack the six new pads of drawing paper I purchased for the trip. It’s less of an issue that If I had forgotten the colored pencils, but still, it means that i have to locate some supplies on this end.
Tags: daily photo, Sylt, travel