Miles To Go Before We Rest...

Miles To Go Before We Rest...

Today is our longest driving day of the trip, we’ll do 12 hours or thereabouts today. Many miles will pass under the wheels of the car that is carrying us closer to a dream we share of a new life in a new place. This trip, even the long hours passing through the corn fields and the cow farms and the neighborhoods, past the Starbucks’ and the Home Depots and all the little diners, past the gas stations with ever changing price signs in front, is also a celebration of the place we are leaving behind. Jimmy and I grew up in, and were nurtured by, this land and the people in it. I am struck by the presence of so many people in so many places who love us, who are interested in us, who are connected to us in one way or another. The process of deciding where to stop was one of the hardest parts of preparing for this trip. If we had stopped everywhere, to see everyone, we would have been on the road months.
Today we’ll pass near the home of my friend Deanna and we wont see her. She will feel me near though, as I hope all the friends we miss as we journey North and East will. Though we won’t see them they are as much a part of the trip as the people we’ll stop and visit with a while.