Airports are a gateway to a traveler's dreams

I love airports- always have.  I can remember when one could go ALL THE WAY to the gate to pick someone up or drop them off- the joy of seeing how happy people were as a loved one got off the plane and saw them- it's amazing.  These days, there's only so far one can go without a ticket, but that feeling is still there where people come into the main terminal.  The movie Love Actually does a good job of portraying this at the end of the movie.  I'm one of those people that still likes to go into an airport to get friends that are travling, not just grab them at the curb.

Oh the places you'll go....

But back to the real reason for this post.  At the beginning of May I got to go visit my very favorite people and their two beautiful girls in Washington.  On the way there, while in the Denver airport (probably my favorite airport for a layover), I marveled at all the places that one can go from an airport.  I know this sounds ridiculous, because isn't that the point of airports?  To go somewhere?  Yes, that is the point, but still.  I just walked through and looked at all the places, domestically let alone internationally, that is was possible to fly to just from Denver.  This mind set opened up so many day dreams for me- thinking about all the places I want to go, what I would do there, what friends I can go see.  I believe that there's always somewhere new to go, someone to visit, or a dream that needs to come true.  Most of mine revolve around traveling, so airports are like heaven for me.

Next time you're at an airport, look around at where the different gates can take you- whether some place big or small- and think about where next you're going.  It's always good to have the next adventure in the woks, that way there's always something to look forward to.

Happy vagabond-ing :)

San Francisco from the airplane.  And on the list you go SF