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Miss Kid has long been fixated on accomplishing the
impossible. She’s fearless, a bit of a
daredevil and stubborn as a bull. Quite
the contrast to her cuckoo ol’ Auntie, who’s a bit of a shopaholic,
travel-a-holic and vino indulging batty old gal. Miss Niece’s one and only goal in life is to travel
the world, soak up the sights and set up camp in the Palace of Versailles so
that she can hang out with the long-dead Queen and swap tales of life at
Court. Delusional. But true.
A top second is to outrun her globetrotting old relative in the race
around the globe, checking off a smidgen more countries than the wacky old Bag
(quite the appropriate terminology, as her Auntie is somewhat of an obsessive satchel
hoarder) could ever hope to do.
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| Dreaming of life as a lady in waiting at Court in Versailles |
The race is on. Who
will cover more territory is a shorter frame of time? Who will be the first to chalk off Australia? And what about Monaco? And, last but not least, Zimbabwe. It’s quite the shame, though, that no one
bothered to tell her wacky ol’ Auntie (that would be me!!) that there was a
serious competition underway, an Olympic jaunt of circumventing the earth, on a
marathon like none other, travel taken to an entirely new level of
outlandishness.
And, the icing on the cake, to achieve all of this by the
time she’s twenty. Like, seriously?? And. Then what? Languishing in front of the telly for the
next 60 years?
Okay then. That’s a
lot of miles to cover, school and part-time work to miss and tons of dough to
dish out. There’s something to be said
for youthful optimism. Or, more likely,
a warped sense of reality, one most likely based on tuning in to one too many
episodes of lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
The Kid had already beat out her ol’ Auntie by having set her hot pink
pedicured tootsies on the sun bronzed isles of Greece, a parcel of land that
her mother’s sister had not yet had the privilege of gallivanting about. But hey, Miss Niece, your ol’ Auntie’s got a
bit more mileage on her, a good 40 years or so, where you’ve got the gift of
time and the rest of your life to traverse the globe.
The Kid recently had the privilege of jetting off to the
land of magical carpet rides, hanging out with sheik sultans, yachts and camels
in ultra-rich over the top decadently
chic Dubai. Her ol’ Auntie sat
mesmerized for days on end, drooling over glossies of Miss Niece’s nights spent
languishing under the starry-eyed heavens, childhood dreams of One Hundred and
One Arabian Nights swirling in her head, just a tad envious of the Kid’s exotic
sojourns. Just a wee bit. Like, geez, the closest her ol’ Auntie’s ever
gotten to a camel was eyeballing one at the zoo, un-elegantly tripping over the
pungent droppings of said exotic animal.
Messy. Smelly. But true.
Does that count for something?
The Amazing Race taken to the next level, with Miss Kid in
the current lead, weeks away from jetting across the pond to yet another
foreign locale, another coveted stamp soon to be added to her now burgeoning
passport. Grinning from ear to ear,
envisioning her poor (literally!!) ol’ Auntie sitting dejectedly at home,
lamenting her travel-less state, Miss Niece was smug as a bug, secure in the
knowledge that victory was hers.
Are you certain about that, Missy? Little did Miss Smarty Pants Niece know that
she was soon to have the rug pulled out from under her, as I’ve been busy
hatching a plan and plotting the next sojourn – one that didn’t involve
languishing on the sofa or watching endless re-runs of long outdated travel
documentaries.
As if the world is her oyster.
And, hey, Miss Kid, your allowance can only get you so far!!
Nonetheless, youth will be youth, and lessons must be
learned first-hand.
The showdown is on.
Who will succeed in racing around the globe,
claiming victory to be theirs and theirs alone?
Tune in each week for more Miss – adventures of the Miss Kid and the not
so daft or cuckoo ol’ Auntie Nora kind.
Next week – what next?? But, more
importantly, where to next? The
adventure continues…
Greece and Dubai pictures courtesy of Maradzidra.
Greece and Dubai pictures courtesy of Maradzidra.
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