maupuia calling

There’s a song by Bill Direen called “America” that ends with the words, “heading to America, and beyond”. I absolutely love the song and when I first traveled in the US, in 1986, it was one I played a lot. It conjured up a promise of a new, different land. An adventure.

And so, we’re a week away from traveling to America again. It’s been almost a year since we first talked about it. A year seemed so far off, not real, not really even a dream. Just something always in the future. It’s crept up on me and now I’m started to get excited.

Deb and I always travel well together. We don’t fight or argue or even really stress. It may be that’s because our first trip together - three months cycling in France and Spain - we did that a lot! It’s out of our system or something. But since then, our traveling has been great. It will be different this time, with Matthew and Joshua coming. We really haven’t traveled anywhere together as a family before. I think it’s going to be wonderful, just the four of us, heading to America and beyond.