A Final Stop Before New Hampshire

Future plans are forming

For the last time in quite some time, I’m writing to you from someplace other than home. We pulled into Albany at 5:00 pm, ending the third of our three longest days of our coddiwomple. From here, it’s a four-and-a-half-hour drive to Jackson, New Hampshire.

This is our third cross-country road trip, and each time we’ve stopped in Albany the night before heading home. Each time there is a slight urge to push on and not spend the night here. Yet, I continue to resist.

I use this last night to gather my thoughts and rest from the long drives. There’s a sweetness to waking up and cutting east and then north through Vermont, before driving east and then north through New Hampshire to finish in the shadow of Mount Washington in that little town with the two covered bridges.

The morning ride will be reflective. It will be emotional; and hopeful.

This is the first trip I’ve ended feeling excited about what awaits us. In 2017 and again in 2019, life was a blur; my health was more uncertain. We…