We don’t travel much. Our lives are pretty busy and content on the home front but Luke had an opportunity to go to Cordova, Alaska to teach music at a 4-H camp, meet new people and see some of Alaska. Saturday came and that meant going to the airport. My alarm clock was set for 4:30a.m. to wake up to drive him. I asked Luke to set his alarm clock too just in case I didn’t wake up or mine didn’t go off. I woke up like clockwork but at 3am and couldn’t go back to sleep. I lay in bed for awhile and then got up to really wake up before hitting the highway. Luke woke up and we were out the door in a few minutes.
It feels neat to get out on the road while it’s still dark and there are very few cars. We did hit some tule fog but no problem. The airport is in San Jose (45 minutes away from us). We got there and there were plenty of people. But Luke easily checked in. I had had in my mind that we would sit down for a nice breakfast before he left but that wasn’t in his mind. I think he was anxious to get on with the adventure. We hugged good-bye and he went into the “Passengers Only” gate.
Since I don’t travel much, that was a little to quick for me. I wasn’t ready to turn right back. I looked and saw a trusty Starbucks. When it was my turn to order , the kind looking fellow asked me where I’m from. He probably thought that … Continue reading ‘In time’
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Just blocks from our house is one of my favorite places to walk. It’s called Neary’s Lagoon, a wildlife refuge. It is so close to downtown Santa Cruz and the Sanitation Department (poop plant) but when you are in it you feel like you’re in an enchanted area. When Luke and Kyle were little we went there often to walk over the pontoon bridges, feed the ducks and sit on the grass. Luke called it Mary’s Bagoon. I still call it that. Some years ago, the city did a huge reconstruction project to make the poop plant bigger and that took away a lot of the grass area but what are you gonna do? We don’t appear to have stopped eating.
