Everything is different. As if someone painted life as we know it in colors our brains can’t quite comprehend. People walking the streets wearing homemade masks. Keeping our distance has become the ultimate showing of love. Parking lots and shopping malls, once packed with the bustle of people, stand empty. Planes stopped flying. Stadiums stand quiet. Calendars cleared of events for the foreseeable future. Even school doors have shuttered. A collective, great pause. In its own way…an exhale.

What really happened is, yes we worked, but we also relaxed, we ideated about our businesses, we loved up our kiddo, we connected with family, we laughed with friends, we had brunch, and farmers market mornings, and book reading afternoons, and fishing dates, and coffee dates, and sunsets, and BBQs. We had a WONDERFUL summer. It was bliss.

Needless to say, the first 5 days of this journey have been…well…a learning experience. We thought we’d just drive our RV home from where we picked it up in Arizona. The sun would be shining. Maybe birds would sing us an anthem as we casually packed up to leave about a week or so later. HA!!!