Deaparture Day

They say a journey starts with a step. But it took alot of work to get to that point of taking that one step out the door and locking it behind me.
My traveling friend Ginny will have a good story to tell, when we all recover from the anxious days waiting for her passport to arrive. Although she sent in her renewal application 16 weeks ago, her passport arrived less than 24 hours before our departure time. You might have heard our shouts of joy when she really had her passport in hand yesterday afternoon. By a strange coincidence, my son Sean (who will join us next month) received his passport yesterday, too. That saves us at least a month of worries.
Packed and ready, I will soon settle into my reading chair to wait for Belinda and her mom Lou and read Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. I, too, am ready for adventure.