Take Me Home

Early morning flights come with earlier morning alarms. The knowledge that it will be 26 hours before we arrive home is a)daunting and b)makes me lucky to live closer than Australia.  If my mom’s cousin could commute from England to Melbourne twice yearly till he was 96, I am certain I can do this.

#Sundaystills The Road to silence

And with a quick snappy click, the room descended into complete and total silence.

Covid in the Rearview mirror

The names roll into my head long before the road sign shows what town is next. The new shingles here or the added grain bins there stand out in my mind. I’ve been on this same trip literally dozens of times. But not since the pandemic and that in itself is what makes it feel a bit like a foreign world.

Home (1)

This is a fictional story; brought about by my wondering what you would do if you had no where to come home to even though Canada was home. It’s been brewing in my head since March. She’s changed her name and her job a few times since my original idea but the conflict she faced stayed the same. But she was always tall just because I could make her so!

It is my third attempt at fiction (two very short stories in the last couple of years). I struggle with thought and conversation (on paper not in real life) and while I think the character and the circumstances seem real enough I don’t know if her “conflict” qualifies as conflict. I would truly appreciate honest feedback from my wonderful readers.

POST 1 HOME

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Photo Challenge Day Dix

Thanks to blogger friend Allan over @ photoblography3 and a new reader Marie @ hopsskipsandjumps for this #10day10photo challenge.

Photo Challenge Day Neun

Thanks to blogger friend Allan over @ photoblography3 and a new reader Marie @ hopsskipsandjumps for this #10day10photo challenge.

Photo Challenge Day A sé

Thanks to blogger friend Allan over @ photoblography3 and a new reader Marie @ hopsskipsandjumps for this #10day10photo challenge.

Photo Challenge Day Vijf

Thanks to blogger friend Allan over @ photoblography3 and a new reader Marie @ hopsskipsandjumps for this #10day10photo challenge.

The travel challenge involves posting one favourite travel picture for each day – That’s 10 days, 10 travel pictures, 10 nominations (doubt I can do that as I don’t really have 10 bloggers in my life that would be interested so think I will just tag 1 on my final day) and 0 explanations about the post.

I have included the info about yesterday’s location at the bottom of todays’ post with a bit of a story and have done this on the other posts as well. Although doing the kindness advent activity daily blog at the same time means I am spending way too much time on WordPress and my phone.

Bernie

DAY VIER (German)

I could definitely have made that one easier! It’s near the most recognizable castle around, made famous by Walt Disney, but really known as Neuschwanstein. Now as I said I did not make it easy because this is not that castle but another lesser known one (Hohenschwangau Castle) nearer to the Alpsee Lake . The entire area, literally just north of the Austrian border, was like this picture perfect postcard. I so want to return to this area and ski in winter from one country to another. I am not sure we will ever afford to do it but at least I can say we drove through the Alps after we stopped here.

B

Photo Challenge Tres

Thanks to blogger friend Allan over @ photoblography3.and a new reader Marie @ hopsskipsandjumps for this #10day10photo challenge.

Photo challenge a dó

Thanks to blogger friend Allan over @ https://photoblography3.wordpress.com/and a new reader Marie @ https://hopsskipsandjumps.com/. (Fighting with the links which was a skill I had mastered – UGH).