There and Back...

 It's a rainy, reflective day...

Thinking back over 45 years of work, I've been blessed to visit all of the 50, plus Canada, Mexico, Cuba, many islands in the Caribbean, Columbia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden, even little Luxembourg. It's been a grand adventure for an illiterate back-side-of-nowhere punk from Wolcott!

And surprisingly, as the kids got older, J was able to adventure alongside to some of the more exotics, on our dime of course. Hawaii, the Caribbean, London, Switzerland, France, South Africa, why even the wilds of Los Angeles!  She became the seasoned tourista while I mostly worked with occasional time off for good behavior!

If you've read any of the early posts, you'll know we both retired the same day back in 2019, bought a dually and RV, then hit the National Parks circuit. We were months into the grand adventure when Covid was turned into propaganda, so we hightailed it home to PA. 

"There and Back" is a theme from Lord of The Rings. It's our story too.

Like Bilbo, we've been blessed to travel and see a lot, and we're both still looking forward to our travel to the Shire.  Though after 40 years of near constant flying, I plan to NEVER get on another airplane...but we still do catch a bit of the wanderlust.

So we continue to do a fair amount of travel, but we limit it to not more than 7 to 10 days at a time now...but generally, we're up for a good road trip!

It's a good thing too, with a beautiful grandaughter down in OK, a handsome grandson up near the North Pole, family in NC, the Great Smoky Mountains calling from TN along with the white sandy beaches of FL whispering for us...each are needing to be visited!

That said, now at 67 and 68 and still a ways off from being full-time hermits, we're both growing a little more content at just being home...living and enjoying a simple life together.

Sometimes that means J working heads down in her quilting office and me trying to look busy working on the property...

...and sometimes it's just sitting together on the porch sipping coffee...enjoying the View from Windy Hill...

Let the adventure continue...