Had I been driving past and saw a sign indicating it was a few miles away I would taken the left to see what's there.
I've ended up in lots of funny places noticing I was nearby and telling myself, "Well, you should go."
Standing in Prague, one of the world's most beautiful cities, I told Bill Berry (not the former drummer for REM but the other one) that we were only a nights train ride away from Poland.
I told him we had to go.
He told me to ... INSERT VERB HERE ... you!
But we ended up going and it was a life altering experience.
Now today I'm intentionally going to Ireland.
It's on Sarah's bucket list and I love Sarah ... plus it's her birthday and I didn't have anything picked out.
There are things I already like about Ireland ... John Lennon's song "The Luck of the Irish" ... Van Morrison ... Celtic Christian writer John O'Donohue ... Celtic Christianity in general ... Druids ... the fact that St. Patrick's Day is a holiday in Savannah ... and I'm part of a group of friends who are all Irish Catholic except me.
Mitch Wesley loves Ireland and Celtic Christianity and I love Mitch so ... I don't know what that has to do with anything but I'm certain it fits in somehow.
I do love pubs and good live music though and there are lots of both in Ireland.
Finally Ireland is an island and of course Islands are the only place I really want to go ... I just never imaged visiting one this far north.
Our bed looks like two Dry Cleaning trucks had a collision as Sarah packs and I've been ordered to stay the Hell away until she's done.
Then I can pack.
But what do you do when it's the woman you love ... and who saved your ass ... and it's her birthday ... and I'm a terrible shopper ... and it's Mother's Day and her girls had no idea ... and she's consistently gone with me to Caribbean Islands, Central America and on nude cruises ... and willingly became a member of the Carnival of Friends ... and my Irish Catholic friends would kill me if we didn't go ... and it would kill Sarah not to knock something off her bucket list ... and it would kill me for her not to when we can make it happen.
But most of all ... because I love her.
Oh Honey ... your birthday begins now!
