This Month's

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Well, for most of North America, it's summer, right along with the weather to prove it.  But, as you know, the "world headquarters" of Ocean Crest Creative, parent company of TravelSalesRep.com, is located on the shoulder of Cape Cod.  The Northeast has just emerged from what will go down in the record books as the coldest, cloudiest and rainiest June on record.  In fact, this part of the country hasn't seen a string of summer-like weather days since September 2008!

It's almost surreal in some ways.  The TV shows people enduring summer heat and grilling tasty dead animals on a grill, all icons of this time of year, but back here in New England, it's seeming a bit more like Old England in April.  The big drag about this all is that you can't get these days back - they're gone like beach sand through your fingers. 

It's Not Eden

Genesis 3:23: So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

No place is Eden.  Anyplace you chose to live in North America has its weather related burdens.  Florida is beautiful, except for the humidity of summer or when a hurricane hits.  The Pacific Northwest gets weather like we've had in June most of the year, while California enjoys, as they say, "riots, fires and mudslides".  As for the middle of the United States and Canada...well, I guess you'd just have to say the "life is a box of chocolates" there, because from Texas to Manitoba, you could get a bit of all-of-the-above and several other weather creations just thrown in to keep things interesting.

Just Keep Moving

James Taylor, in his semi-recent release, "One Man Band", has a great quote.  It goes something like, "If you travel for a living and you do it enough, you can get so good at it that you really never have a home".  Wow...there's a line that cuts to the heart of all of us that have chosen travel as our life's passion and profession.  Even when we "travel type" aren't literally travelling somewhere, we are cruising the highways and byways of the world vicariously as we help others realize their dreams and aspirations.  Many people travel, but true travelers are a unique and special breed.

Steady On

And so it is full summer in New England - complete with it's mossy greens, abundance of life and, this year, copious amounts of refreshing rain.  I guess as any traveler has learned, places that we visit are not always as we expected, but, if you look, they are always loaded with that elusive quintessence we all seek as professional wanders.  Maybe all this never-ending, spring-like weather isn't all that bad.  I guess one could simply view it as a never-ending season of hope and optimism towards things the good things to come.  Travel on this summer and I hope, whatever the weather is like where you "home", you enjoy the journey that you are fortunate enough to be on!

Cheers!

Your Cyber-Sales Rep