Good-Bye

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Setting up the tent for our very first night outdoors in Cape Reinga, New Zealand

I've been home for a month today. It's been a slow adjustment - from living in visions of the past to now looking toward an uncertain future. I don't have the self-awareness or the poetic voice to explain what this all has meant to me. I observe that the world feels both larger and more accessible than ever. That I am far better suited to a life outdoors than I'd imagined. That I'm happiest in the mountains, and that Christina is happiest swimming 30m underwater (future irreconcilable differences?). But I don't know what to express beyond profound gratitude. Maybe that's enough.

Thanks for following along and sharing this experience with me. This blog has been an important way for me to feel like I could share the beauty of these places with the people that I so wished could be there by my side. And in this way you inspired me to explore and to continue searching for my own happiness. Thank you and good-bye!