Langley, United States

Almost gone... gathering last minute items... spread all over the house... excited and nervous... too much left for the last day... discerning the essentials... Tomorrow at this time I will be in the air and on my way. I will keep in touch as I can ...

I have my multi-purpose shoes, my drip-dry overnight head to toe clothes and my passport. I have contacted friends of friends and pored over pages and pages of travel guides (including the picture books in the junior section of the library). It feels ...

... taxi out to the beach about two and a half hours away. Most of the roads in Nicaragua would not be considered passable in the states. Stateside, they would put up a big "road closed" barricade, and no one would be allowed to travel on the road. The taxi ...

what is home? The daffodils are blooming. The orchard is budding. I sip my tea and stare at the remnants of my past life, stacked, strewn and tucked in all around me; I see them as though from a great distance. I wonder how it was that all of this " ...