We Are In Go Mode

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

We have travel plans! It has been a very long while since we had time and capacity to do much traveling. We used to go on a pretty regular basis to Gatlinburg, Tennessee; rent a cabin up on a mountain; and just tuck in for a few days of serious rest and recuperation. Here lately, even our Gatlinburg trips have been seriously curtailed as we seem to never find time to get away together anymore.

That is about to change. We have a wedding to attend in May. Master's eldest is planning a wedding in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We've known about it, of course, for months now, but our thinking about it has been pretty abstract as we've wrestled with which of us could go, and how we would go, and how much time we might take to go, and what we might do on the way there and back, and where we needed to stay if we did go... A serious tangled up, rambling conversation that has just not taken us where we needed to be in order to actually put a plan in place for making the journey.

Finally, a couple of nights ago, we got busy and sorted though the alternatives and options, and made a plan. We now have reservations at what looks like a very nice hotel, and we are ready to go. We all have what Master is referring to as "wedding duds," and it seems as if our little family will get to make a real live, honest to goodness trip together. The wedding will be fine, I'm sure, but I know that I am looking forward to some time away -- just the three of us.

Then, on a roll, we also made plans for some summer travel. It will be just a weekend away -- T is in a new job, and neither Master nor T can take of very much time from work because there's been so much time taken in the last year as they recovered from surgeries...

Never mind though -- we've got an absolutely lovely hotel suite reserved with a small living room, full kitchen and a fireplace, and two bedrooms all in the midst of the Ann Arbor Art Festival. It looks wonderful, and again it will just be so nice to get away for a bit of time.

We've got our traveling shoes out and ready to go.

swan