#firstdayofschool or #firstdayoftravel? Or are they the same! Here my mother obliges me with what feels like a first day of school photo with me and my little bags as I head off for two months in #Europe! Now I am proud of how small they look while I am sure I will purge more in the movement toward #minimalism in #travel …

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New experiment. I’m starting my Forever Young European tour this week. When I was leaving Rhode Island earlier this week to come to Paris, my mother remarked, “It’s just like you’re going off for two months in Europe after college!” I said, “That’s true!” I traveled alone in Europe for two months after college graduation, and that trip came in between my time in New York City and my time in San Francisco. Twenty years later, I’m going to Europe again for two months. So perhaps this will be a pattern, every twenty years (or let’s make that every five or ten years) I will do two months in Europe and call it the Forever Young Tour.