While I perused Salon.com last week, looking for my daily dose of Left Coast histrionics, I saw a personal ad (with accompanying sassy-date-me-I’m-super-fun photo), that said “if I could be anywhere at the moment: Playing the Roseland Ballroom with my new band”. And, I thought, if could be anywhere at the moment where would I be? An immediate, overwhelming answer did not jump to mind, which I found concerning. There are places I love, such as Paris, but clearly no place so soul-satisfying that it hangs in my sub-conscious, prepared to leap onto my tongue should someone ask if could be anywhere at the moment where would I be.
Perhaps I am just that content where I am at the moment, or, more likely, I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Not that I ever really need an excuse to travel, I feel I have a mission now. But I suppose never finding the answer could be just as rewarding as finding it.
Curious as to where others would want to be, I googled the phrase “If I could be anywhere at the moment” and there were 10,400 responses. The following are the first 15 that appeared (omitting the overtly cheesy such as "having intellectual, physical and emotional banter with someone that I share chemistry with” or “in the kitchen, cooking something hot and sweet for the woman who loves me.")
“If I could be anywhere at the moment…”
"Somewhere off the coast of Tahiti in a small fishing boat."
"I would be on a beach and seeing the ocean for the first time."
"I'd be in Cameroon, or Mali, or Colombia.”
"In Fiji with my new boyfriend discussing what to do next.”
"Ski mountaineering in Alaska, or in a jazz club in New Orleans."
"Simultaneously in the Black Rock Desert and in New York City.”
“Seeing U2 live in concert."
"On a pilgrimage to Dollywood. In a convertible. With a cowboy. An urban cowboy?" ...
"The Uffizzi - can't get enough of Caravaggio.”
"Japan would be fun."
"Colorado, in the mountains."
"Somewhere in the Georgia Mountains."
"Having dinner in Paris or exploring Vietnam."
“In Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France. It's the perfect place for an art colony, if only I could convince other artists ...”
“Anywhere but here.”
If you could be anywhere at the moment, where would you be?
-- Clear Plastic Bag
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Sitting on the beach, sipping a margarita while David Beckham told me how hot I look in my bikini.
Hanging out on the deck of that amazing beach house in Sleeping with the Enemy, drinking a Bud Light and watching the surf. . .
outside the pantheon in roma, eating pasta and making goo goo eyes at maximillio.
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