Why Fear of Flying?

Greetings from the Philippines! Jake and I are enjoying a great honeymoon at El Nido Resorts in Palawan - a slice of eco-heaven on earth. After a whirlwind of a month, we're happy to just settle in, sleep, relax on the beach and explore the surrounding islands.

A lot has changed for us since mid-September. In addition to resigning from our jobs in NYC and most importanly getting MARRIED!, we've also halfway moved to Chicago and started a bit of an adventure overseas beginning with this honeymoon.

My personal enjoyment of this trip can be measured on many levels, but I'll only mention two. The first and more cosmetic has to do with the number of fake eyelashes I lose daily. I had 160 lashes glued to my lids for the wedding on 10/2/10. When I finished up at BlingLash on 14th Street between 6th and 7th (highly recommended!), I felt a bit like a "woman of the night." Happily, I settled in to them and now don't want to give them up. Unfortunately, I'm now losing them by the day. So for Post #1, let's say I have about 125 lashes left.

Another measure of the success of this trip is about the title of this blog, "Fear of Flying." Fortunately for me and my husband, neither of us have true anxiety over flying. It's actually quite enjoyable especially on Emirates Airlines on which we flew from JFK to Dubai and on to Manila. They fed us every 2.2 seconds it seemed and had personal TVs equipped with more than 150 movies. Not bad!

So why call the blog "Fear of Flying?" It has to do with the personal choices we've made to get where we are today. As my husband so aptly put it in his wedding speech, we are currently homeless, jobless and newlywed, a far cry from where we were one month ago! Many would say we were successful Manhattanites living well in the Big City. But, we decided that family and friends and each other are the most important thing right now - much more important than the daily grind. Beginning our marriage in this way is a bit of a gamble (actually the biggest of our lives), but we're willing to risk it for happiness. So, we're letting everything go (i.e. wordly possessions, NY-based friends all of which we love and will sorely miss, our Tribeca apartment, creature comforts and security) to roll the dice on something extraordinary. With any luck, we'll be "flying" in no time...