In two days I'm leaving for France. I always get anxiety-ridden before trips, and often while on trips. Travel is an uprooting, a break with nearly every aspect of your everyday life. And that can be highly disconcerting. It can also be an opportunity to learn new things, to think new thoughts (as I heard some guy on NPR say) and to be renewed physically, spiritually, intellectually. Yep. Now I'm going to try to remember that for the next two weeks.