{"id":40,"date":"2008-07-25T08:45:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-07-25T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T03:17:09","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theagingofaquarius.com\/dw_blog\/going-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Going home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AQRnZwa-8ck\/SInqwGdzSNI\/AAAAAAAAAGE\/ukmDMyCFtpw\/s1600-h\/Rainier%2Band%2BGig%2BHarbor.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AQRnZwa-8ck\/SInqwGdzSNI\/AAAAAAAAAGE\/ukmDMyCFtpw\/s400\/Rainier%2Band%2BGig%2BHarbor.jpg?resize=471%2C310\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226966954630400210\" border=\"0\" width=\"471\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">After a wonderful week and a half visiting family and friends while exploring the Pacific Northwest <\/span>Carolann, Cricket and I are on our way home, relaxed but sensing a measure of home-based stress that increases by the mile.<\/p>\n<p>We get sad when we have to go home. We look like a couple of little kids who dropped their lollipops in the dirt.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We&#8217;ve always been lousy at ending vacations. <\/span>Once, while waiting to board our flight home from vacation in Hawaii we looked at each other and and knew what we had to do. We got out of our chairs and walked out of the airport in Honolulu to find a new hotel room and spend just one more day in paradise.<\/p>\n<p>When Jeremy and Nathan were young we took them on a cruise to Mexico. When our ship returned to Southern California for our drive home to Sacramento we decided, in a burst of spontaneity, to take the kids to Disneyland, which we did. The next morning, preparing to drive home, I noticed on the map that the Grand Canyon was only about six hundred miles away, so off we went.<\/p>\n<p>Thataway!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AQRnZwa-8ck\/SInvhS-6TKI\/AAAAAAAAAGM\/9-jgvAedA8g\/s1600-h\/Mt.%2BJefferson%2C%2BOregon.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AQRnZwa-8ck\/SInvhS-6TKI\/AAAAAAAAAGM\/9-jgvAedA8g\/s320\/Mt.%2BJefferson%2C%2BOregon.jpg?resize=230%2C173\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226972197850598562\" border=\"0\" width=\"230\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Driving south in July is a predictable experience. <\/span>The air grows disagreeably warmer, the sky less blue. The forest-green forests of Washington fade in the rear view mirror. 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