We were having trouble all week deciding what time to head out on our annual journey to Maine. Our first thought was to try leaving the house around midnight like we did, successfully, in 2017. After a pretty routine morning and afternoon (if you can ignore the three solid days of nonstop rain that resulted in 4.3 inches in the gauge and persistent showers over us all morning and afternoon … we couldn’t ignore them), we lay down for some rest around 6:45pm and planned to get up around 10. We kept close to that schedule, getting up around 10:15, having a small snack of frozen pasta and veggies, and leaving the house at 11pm.

We have been fortunate. For us, the past year and a half was different, tough at times, but mostly business as usual or easy enough to adapt to. The one thing we really missed was traveling. We were so sure when we had to cancel our Maine trip last September that we would be back, and everything else would be back in normal working order too, in 2021—certainly by September 2021.