MATTHEW 10:14
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.
We finally made it out of our home, well, technically it hasn’t been our home for a month as we had been renting it back from the buyers since July 15.
It took us a while to get out of the driveway. We had to pack and repack the car several times. The recently picked up trash bin only had the things I think I can do without. I left my favorite, but very old sandals, my favorite but very old pink sweater, some socks, a few bags, and my Giants cap with all my old pins. I think the Giants cap was the hardest to leave behind.
The house sold very fast, we didn’t even have to put it on the market, because of the backyard. The new owners referred to the backyard as an oasis. It was for me. Saying goodbye to the chickens was tough, but saying goodbye to the feelings of joy and the memories of the great times in the backyard, was even harder. Utah has never felt like home to me but I have spent more of my adult life, twenty-two years, in Utah, than anywhere else so the friendships I made were really amazing. I will miss my people the most, and the Wasatch at 4:30 pm on a late summer day. But is never was home. So the day after I retired, we were on the road. Our three and a half month road trip to parts of the country that have not been seen by us or that we love and want to visit again.
We ate ham sandwiches for lunch prepared by Michael on his last baked loaf in Utah. I know, meat on a Friday? But August 15 is a solemnity and out usual fasting was replaced by the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s assumption into heaven. Yes, a ham sandwich is a perfect way to celebrate that, along with going to mass with your super best friends. We ate at Arshel’s in Beaver Utah, Michael said this was ok since this was an US road trip and diners are Americana. But alas, my Catholic guilt got the better of me and I had fish and chips at the diner. It was the special of the day!
We overnighted in a new place, Fish Lake National Forest. It is only a little over 3 hours from Salt Lake City and quite a find. We had a beautiful campsite at Anderson Meadow and it was quiet and dark… and the rain. We had lots of rain.
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