Following the Blue Trail

Travel plans are moving out of the mists. We will soon be departing for England and Ireland to visit family and also to attend the Dublin Theatre Festival and a writer retreat on the Beara Peninsula in southwest Ireland. The internet offers many ways to lay down tracks through various modes of transportation and places to stay. But in Ireland, we are purposely leaving pockets of time to just go as we will, expecially in the western regions. To leave room for serendipity and intuition and following whims and interactions with people and places. My early years of travel were less planned and more from the gut, which led to some remarkable adventures. Now it is reversed. Although I still feel the prickling of excitement of being open to the unknown. And Ireland is known as the place where the veils thin. During my long trip in Scotland two years ago, the colour blue appeared in a variety of ways and is a thread to pick up the Celtic trail once again.