Thanksgiving is tomorrow and today many Americans are on the road. I’m currently in Chicago–been here since last weekend and later today we are driving back together home.
It’s snowing heavily outside. All the news channels, meanwhile, are reporting at different airports how busy they have become, especially at Chicago O’Hare, where the flights are being delayed for more than an hour.
This may be boring for you, but, surprise, this is another pleasure I enjoy annually. For some reason, I just love those shots in the airport, on the road, showing other people traveling. Call it my guilty pleasure No. 2. Maybe it’s enjoying the travel without the hassle of travel, to some extent. Maybe it’s because I just love it when the whole nation seems to be on the move.
On a relative note, Thanksgiving is tomorrow. Juju was prepared to make rounds at the post-Thanksgiving sales, otherwise known as Black Friday. My suggestion was to avoid it as much as possible. After all, this is just the beginning of shopping season and stores are not marking everything on sale. I used to have lofty expectations for these sales but always got disappointed—the stores use so-few-it’s-impossible-to-get cheap items to get you in there but nothing else interesting was on sale. Throw in the sleepless night and the horrible traffic at 5AM on the highway. It’s never worth it.
Happy Thanksgiving!