Here There and Everywhere

Happy Anniversary, AdventureMan

Today I received this.

At first, I thought it was some friend reminding me and wondered who it was, but I think it is a WordPress function, giving me material to post.

Truly, it’s the whole reason I started this blog, twenty years ago. We are human. We forget. As I read, I was back in that earlier time, early COVID, and I forgot how restricting it was. I had a wonderful, brave real estate friend who showed us houses, and then my sweet daughter-in-law called and said “Are you still interested in THIS house?” It was the house we had sold to them ten years before, but now, with a growing family, they wanted something larger and were happy to sell the house back to us, with one condition – that they inherit the house when we move on. We happily agreed.

And here we are, 6 years later, doing what we love to do – travel, see new things and talk with people. We have had the most amazing adventure, back to Alaska. We love stories, we love to hear how people came here, how people live. Yesterday, we had the joy of finding ourselves on board a small ship with just four passengers, one of whom was a Jordanian man, almost our exact age, and we had so many friends in common, and we had so much fun together.

As he introduced himself to us, he said “You will notice I have an accent, I am from Jordan.”

AdventureMan, always quick, responded in Jordanian Arabic, asking which part of Jordan. The look on the doctor’s face cracked us all up, and from that moment, we were not fellow passengers, but family. We ended up having lunch together after the excursion; we couldn’t stop talking.

Tomorrow, we have dinner with a man I graduated from high school with, lo, those many years ago, and who is, in my eyes, a hero. He is a doctor with his own airplane, and he spent his career flying to outlying Alaskan villages and providing medical services to those who otherwise would not have access.

Life is sweet.

Once I get the photos organized and the trip written up, I will share with you. Meanwhile, thank you, WordPress, for the prompt.

June 7, 2026 - Posted by intlxpatr | Adventure, Alaska, Biography, Character, Civility, ExPat Life, Interconnected, Marriage, Moving, Pensacola, Quality of Life Issues, Travel | anniversary