Follow us from BC to Sweet Tea

Our checklists are checked. Our bucket lists are...bucked? Our things are in boxes and bags or piles to be boxed and bagged. If it doesn't fit in the car on Sunday, it isn't going. We are heading home!!

Well, home is a bit of a misnomer. We have been here so long that Vancouver really does feel like home. And we will miss it and the folks we have known tremendously. But we are heading back to family, and that is a gift for which we have been longing for a long time. 

So many things have changed since we have been gone. For good, for bad and forever. Some are known and some are waiting to be discovered. 

Coming out to Vancouver so much was unknown. Driving across the continent watching the landscape change felt like such an adventure. Endless fields of sunflowers in Nebraska, huge mountains along the Beartooth Highway in Montana, the Pacific beaches which face the wrong way. All that gave way to a city where things were subtly different and unfamiliar and a school that was challenging in all the right ways and gratifying because it was worth it. There were major struggles along the way and points when I truly thought we were not going to make it. But we did.

In the Lord of the Rings, the beginning of the adventure is scary with every new bend in the road containing unknown danger. But the road home is sweet, almost too easy (it turns out not to be easy once they arrive back, but the danger is quickly overcome! And that is a different story). The road home is an adventurer's reward. What was heretofore dangerous becomes no threat at all. It is one of my favorite parts of the story because it is so profoundly true. I think this was a theme Tolkien enjoyed. There and back again. Every there has a back again. And this is about to be our story. Back Again. I'm really looking forward to it.



You can follow our road trip back by keeping an eye on this blog. We'll do our best to update every day during the trip.