Help this writer stay at the Tumbleweed Hotel
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What: Staying at the Tumbleweed Hotel
Where: Shakespeare and Company, Paris
When: March 2020
Why: June 6 was my birthday, and I’m shocked to be almost forty. Where have I been? Where am I going? Hopefully, I travel to Paris in March 2020 to sleep at Shakespeare and Company's Tumbleweed Hotel.
George Whitman, founder of the bookstore's current location, passed away in 2010, but before he died, he welcomed thousands of writers, or “tumbleweeds,” to sleep in makeshift beds between book stacks at his shop.
I "hope" to sleep here because I can’t make a reservation. I just have to show up, wish for the best, and do my part: read a book a day, help around the store, and write.
With forty looming, it’s time to be the old lady at Shakespeare and Company. The plan is to fly out around March 1, 2020, and remain in Paris for three weeks.
This is a seeking, a pilgrimage to commune with the ghosts of Fitzgerald and Anais Nin. I’ll have imaginary arguments with Hemingway, Stein, and maybe even George Whitman’s passionate presence. I’ll over-romanticize everything and drink too much wine. I’ll speak my best French and just enjoy life for a little while.
Like Bilbo, “I’m going on an adventure!”
Sadly, adventures aren’t free, so for my birthday, I don’t ask for gifts but for donations to help with travel, lodging, and food. Paris is waiting, and if you want to help this crazy writer fulfill a life-long dream, this is your chance.
With this trip, I hope to remind people of all ages that life is never stagnant. There is always space for change and opportunities to try something spectacular. There are new people to meet, books to read, and words yet to be written if only we stop being afraid and just do.
And I am afraid. I’m nervous to travel alone and try surviving on my paltry French while wandering unknown streets and talking to strangers. Yet, the fear won’t stop me. How often do we miss out on things because of fear, anxiety, or self-doubt? Not this time.
This is my quirky quest. Will you help me walk this path?
Learn more about me and my work:
http://SaraDobieBauer.com.
And remember: “Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.”
Where: Shakespeare and Company, Paris
When: March 2020
Why: June 6 was my birthday, and I’m shocked to be almost forty. Where have I been? Where am I going? Hopefully, I travel to Paris in March 2020 to sleep at Shakespeare and Company's Tumbleweed Hotel.
George Whitman, founder of the bookstore's current location, passed away in 2010, but before he died, he welcomed thousands of writers, or “tumbleweeds,” to sleep in makeshift beds between book stacks at his shop.
I "hope" to sleep here because I can’t make a reservation. I just have to show up, wish for the best, and do my part: read a book a day, help around the store, and write.
With forty looming, it’s time to be the old lady at Shakespeare and Company. The plan is to fly out around March 1, 2020, and remain in Paris for three weeks.
This is a seeking, a pilgrimage to commune with the ghosts of Fitzgerald and Anais Nin. I’ll have imaginary arguments with Hemingway, Stein, and maybe even George Whitman’s passionate presence. I’ll over-romanticize everything and drink too much wine. I’ll speak my best French and just enjoy life for a little while.
Like Bilbo, “I’m going on an adventure!”
Sadly, adventures aren’t free, so for my birthday, I don’t ask for gifts but for donations to help with travel, lodging, and food. Paris is waiting, and if you want to help this crazy writer fulfill a life-long dream, this is your chance.
With this trip, I hope to remind people of all ages that life is never stagnant. There is always space for change and opportunities to try something spectacular. There are new people to meet, books to read, and words yet to be written if only we stop being afraid and just do.
And I am afraid. I’m nervous to travel alone and try surviving on my paltry French while wandering unknown streets and talking to strangers. Yet, the fear won’t stop me. How often do we miss out on things because of fear, anxiety, or self-doubt? Not this time.
This is my quirky quest. Will you help me walk this path?
Learn more about me and my work:
http://SaraDobieBauer.com.
And remember: “Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.”
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Sara Dobie Bauer
Organizer
Chardon, OH
