The beginning of anything is always an adventure. You never really know what will happen, once you have started out. Mary Frances was knitting a scarf for her Mother for Christmas and I watched her as she added stitch after stitch for the first row. She was excited to be launching a new project, knowing full well that some time during the knitting, she will be weary with the knitting.
Today, Ken and I feel the same. Our trip has been planned over the course of almost a year and now we are beginning to take the first step, the equivalent of adding those first stitches for Mary Frances. The difference between Mary Frances and us is that after she has completed the scarf, she will have a product that Christina will wear. At the end of our five months of travel, we will have a memory and perhaps some pictures. But we will have visited many places in the world that we have only read about, so we are excited to be taking the first stitch.
One anxiety of this trip is the access to the Internet. On a ship it can be difficult and I am told expensive. Ken already needs a drug store. All the comforts of home will not be at our fingertips, but we will manage, one way or another, I feel sure. And we are beginning our journey.
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