Milan Day 3

 I didn’t do much of anything today but wander the city aimlessly. More than anything else I was excited to have a day of good weather where I could just take in the city.

Water water everywhere

One interesting note was dinner, not interesting for the meal but for the conversation. I overheard the people next to me talking American and asked them where they were from. They said Bergen, New Jersey which is actually not far from where I was staying a few weeks ago. I’m not sure why I used a plural ‘they’ in this sentence. This was a couple on a honeymoon and he was doing all the talking. He talked about a lot of things, how much he found California distasteful, how tiring their honeymoon had been. A real gem. His wife hardly said a word and had a look in her eyes the whole time like she wanted to run so far away. ‘Til death I guess. Moments like that make me feel happy to be single.

I rounded out the evening by listening to a man in the hostel lobby play guitar. A west coast (best coast) Canadian traveling the continent with his girlfriend. We talked about our experiences on the road.

Today was a day where I felt somewhat lonely. Solo traveling can be extraordinarily isolating, especially in a place where you don’t speak the language. Luckily people here are generally warmer than they are up north but making real connections is hard to do when you wander so much. Not a whole lot I can do there but enjoy these things for what they are. I feel like in a way I’m making a mental list of places I’d like to show someone special later. To take in so much beauty and experience so much but have nobody to share it with is difficult.

desire?