My laptop is close to dying and I’m trying to squeeze in these last ten. My partner is on the roof, staring out at Seattle from 400 feet in the evening sky. It’s after 8 pm and it feels like the entire city has shut down for the night. I cannot understand it. What I do know is that we’re having a good time and enjoying this lifestyle and time together away from being parents. This is what our present and future looks like, minus 5+ month chunks of sweating in the desert while we put 3 other kids through middle and high school. I get her being done with all of that. I still see some joy left to squeeze out of that life, but she’s done it four times now.
But the blog isn’t about the disparities. It is about what brings us together. Often that is travel and exploring the day to day life together. We are a good pair–especially when left to be just the two of us. We do well and argue or disagree about little beyond the kids. She helps me be a better writer, and I help her be a better explorer. We work and we are happy in each other’s arms. I cannot ask for terribly more than that out of this life.