On the Road Again

Photo Credit: Me

2026 is ushering in a move for my husband, our dog, Trinie, and me. We are on the road again, and how these kinds of things come in is truly a mind meld. I didn’t see this one coming, yet when it did, the genie could not be stuffed back into the bottle.

The relocation that was the most tender and emotional for me was leaving our Utah home twelve years ago where we had raised our children. I vividly recall in the wee hours of the morning as our dear friend, Alan, drove us to the airport with our two dogs, Jordan and Zuke. Craning my neck, looking over my left shoulder for one more deep inhale that I would take with me in my mind’s eye and heart.

I closed the space walking from room to room thanking the house for holding us as dearly as it had. Completing our time there, and asking it to welcome another steward of it.

Interestingly enough, a widow who had recently lost her husband in a small plane crash, moved in sight unseen. She lived in Idaho, and her daughter and grands who lived in Utah were her eyes.

I understand she too has felt held, and is healing in our former residence.

We have savored two houses while on the island, and it’s time now to return to the mountains, change in seasons, coastal beaches, and forests that inhabit our DNA.

I’m delighted to travel to wherever we are led, and it’s to the Pacific Northwest. Another bucket list adventure awaits before our ‘address’ is the same as our son’s, and other beloveds who are truly home.

I was speaking with my mentor, and recounting how I must have been a nomad in previous lifetimes. She brought in that for many, we are not meant to live in just one place. For others, of course, it suits them well. Never a one size fits all with where we land.

Longing for simpler, easier to manage and care for property is our priority. It has been feeling very uplifting to sift, sort, donating items, giving away, while remaining intentional about traveling only with what is needed. Turns out it is a very small list.

Exciting, overwhelming, adventurous, listening to the various reactions from others has been fascinating. What I trust is that we are being guided and held. Listening quietly to and following daily what is coming in for what may be next.   

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ~ Confucious

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This is how Trinie is helping! I'm with you, girl. Just take all my stuffed pals is her only request.