Thanks to all of you who have wished us well, shared ideas, and shown us your tremendous care. It feels good and we are deeply grateful for the support we have felt through this little blog — and in the real world too! I’m not surprised though. Not because we’re so great, but because somehow we have so many outstanding people for family and friends.
Many of you have said how envious you are of our undertaking, but strangely, the idea of selling the house and taking this trip has been the easy part. I don’t doubt the decision or question it. It’s all of the logistics that bug me: buying stuff, selling stuff, storing stuff, arranging, and rearranging. I think that makes me a “vision” guy and not a “details” guy. Hmmm. This may explain why I switched from engineering to English in college….
I’ve been contemplating recently that the money we are spending/losing to take this trip is a kind of luxury, but also a calculated investment, in time and experience. Something we believe is well worth the price. However, the real luxury of this trip is that we can travel about the country relatively easily and safely. Not only does the US have many beautiful places, but we can visit them, no problem. The infrastructure of concrete and asphalt, as well as of laws and culture make it so. I say this to remind myself more than anybody else, so that I maintain a spirit of gratitude, which tends to serve me much better than fretting or second-guessing.
There’s my ramble o’ the week. Now back to scrutinizing truck caps for the pick-up bed, or something.
