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Have a safe trip home. I admire your ability to go 300 miles between pit stops. I wish my bladder were still that young. Hope you are reenergized for getting back to work. That's a really nice post, Emily. I love the personification of Nature and the use of violinist terms. Emily, you just missed the good weather here in PA. It was 66 and sunny today but I guess the storms are headed our way.

That's very odd though, this time of year. If you were looking for a warm winter trip though...you need to think further south. Much further.

Have a safe trip back.

You know, we were all ready to book a flight to Hawaii last fall, but an airline monopoly jacked the ticket prices way up, and housing there was so darn expensive. So we were just going to stay put for the winter instead.

Then Thanksgiving rolled around, and since George and I have no family in AK, we ate our dinner over at our friends' place. It was windy and nasty that day, and when we came home the power went out for a couple of hours. So we sat in the dark thinking about the prospect of spending Christmas the same way. All alone. In the dark. As soon as the power came back on, I called my mom, who shared with me her own stories of her not-so-great Thanksgiving. It was at that point that the two of us decided to find a way for George and I to spend the holidays with our families.

We're so glad we got to see all the people we love again. It definitely beats sitting at home in the dark. Heck, it might even beat a sandy beach in the sun.

Maybe next year we'll make it to Hawaii.

You will definitely get to Hawaii one of these years. In the meantime, spending the holidays with family is great (if you get along with them).