Hello Good-Bye

Sitting on a bench hearing crickets at the edge of the bay saying goodbye but I had just said hello yet here it is leaving time while all those plans have been used up and a new itinerary has already started though really it’s the end of the last song of the last plan starting fresh with excitement finally sitting in my belly the can is packed and I have yellow highlighted the map with our purpose routed down through the mid-west states cutting across Washington to saunter into Pendleton in Oregon’s upper neck where we’ll slice off the top to Boise and say adieu to a friend’s niece in the Salt Lake somewhere have you ever been to the Arches National park as we haven’t before so there will have to be a day or two hanging upside down with nature’s art in the desert before we cross to the wilds of our southern neighbor of Mexico pilgrims with their big smiles and their big hearts.