June 29 – Windsor, UK to CALGARY

Weather – 29º forecast high in Windsor, 23º

Steps – 6,699

Humidity – 75% in Windsor

I’m thrilled to say it was an uneventful travel day home. No delays, no enormous lines, no stress.

It has been a wonderful 52-day long adventure. I’ll have to take a bit of time to let the memories settle and then look back at the blog to remind myself of the all of the things we saw and did. I love writing the blog, but love looking back more.

When we return from a trip we are often asked what the best part was, and our usual answer is that nothing stands out…everything was great. Not this time, far and away, the absolute best was the safari – this will definitely not be our last safari.

We are also always asked when we are away if we are ready to come home or when we get home if we were ready to come home. My philosophy is that I’m ready to come home when the trip is ending regardless of how long I’ve been away. I get my mind around coming home when the end is approaching.

No matter how great time away is, I am always thrilled to be home to my bed, my shower, my laundry machine, my family. I was reminded how few things I need, how much clothes, toiletries, shoes, space. I am inspired to get rid of things I don’t need when I get home from living with all that fits in my suitcases. I wore about half of what I packed, so I didn’t even need all that I brought.

I am also looking forward to getting back into old eating and drinking routines. No matter how great the Regent bread and desserts were…I need to NOT eat bread and dessert at every meal and grab a random cookie. I also need to dry out, no more wine with lunch and dinner every day. I guess that’s why it’s vacation, not every day living.

I didn’t quite get to 100 pages of blog writing I’ll have to end on page 97 - I guess the trip wasn’t quite long enough.Thanks to everyone who came along on this journey with us by reading!

# of flights – 5

# of countries visited – 18

# of new countries visited – 12

# of countries missed – 1

Until next time…