The Upcoming Season

Our final family excursion near the Croatian village of Viganj took us past a cliffside chapel, down through a heavily vegetated ravine, along a rarely used road … to a small beach carved out under a towering wall of rock. The view was serene, the colors were perfect … and there was a near-infinite number of seaside stones on the beach, each of them rounded soft and smooth by the Adriatic sea.

I remember that scene now as I think about the next few months of our trip. We travel soon to Morocco, to Tunisia, to east Africa, to southeast Asia, then east Asia.

I have a sense that we’ve been PREPARED for something in these places. Perhaps, somehow – our first four months on the road have smoothed us and rounded us for something beautiful.