Home Again
Our trip to Germany was as close to ideal as any vacation gets. We had good weather, a lot of physical activity, and good food, three among many successful ingredients in a worthwhile trip. We learned more about our German friends and participated in more activities because of our familiarity from our visit last year. We were surrounded by beauty—manicured lawns and houses with balconies full of petunias and geraniums of every color in window boxes hanging over the edges. We hated to leave at the end of the two weeks and that’s a good way to leave a trip—wanting to come back.
No matter how superior vacations are, they have to come to an end, and yesterday was the day we flew back home. When we arrived back in Pikeville at 11:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. German time the next day) after getting up at 5 a.m. German time (1 a.m. EST), driving over an hour to the Munich airport, sitting on the plane for 10 hours, enduring a three hour layover in Atlanta, arriving in Tri-Cities an hour later than we had planned, driving home two hours with so little sleep, we unloaded the suitcases, took out what we needed to get ready for bed, and hit the pillows and crawled into our clean, soft sheets with barely enough breath to day good night. I do not remember anything but the feeling of relief to close my eyes and sleep in my own bed!
The trip went easy, and Brian met us at the airport, helped us with our luggage, and then we ate in Kingsport (he was visiting Lahla who lives in Johnson City about 20 minutes away). We ate at Sitar, an Indian restaurant, and were able to visit with him for almost three hours. He leaves Tuesday for three weeks of climbing in Peru, so we were glad to see him and be able to give him our good wishes for a safe trip in person.
Today we woke up early and I spent the morning unpacking and putting things away. We each did a swim, and Mark spent some time in the garden, showing me what I needed to do to take care of plants while he attends the Hoffman Institute. We will spend the week taking care of unfinished business and projects put off until we returned. We truly did vacate on our vacation, and now we are refreshed to begin anew.
No matter how superior vacations are, they have to come to an end, and yesterday was the day we flew back home. When we arrived back in Pikeville at 11:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m. German time the next day) after getting up at 5 a.m. German time (1 a.m. EST), driving over an hour to the Munich airport, sitting on the plane for 10 hours, enduring a three hour layover in Atlanta, arriving in Tri-Cities an hour later than we had planned, driving home two hours with so little sleep, we unloaded the suitcases, took out what we needed to get ready for bed, and hit the pillows and crawled into our clean, soft sheets with barely enough breath to day good night. I do not remember anything but the feeling of relief to close my eyes and sleep in my own bed!
The trip went easy, and Brian met us at the airport, helped us with our luggage, and then we ate in Kingsport (he was visiting Lahla who lives in Johnson City about 20 minutes away). We ate at Sitar, an Indian restaurant, and were able to visit with him for almost three hours. He leaves Tuesday for three weeks of climbing in Peru, so we were glad to see him and be able to give him our good wishes for a safe trip in person.
Today we woke up early and I spent the morning unpacking and putting things away. We each did a swim, and Mark spent some time in the garden, showing me what I needed to do to take care of plants while he attends the Hoffman Institute. We will spend the week taking care of unfinished business and projects put off until we returned. We truly did vacate on our vacation, and now we are refreshed to begin anew.
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