(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(background:white))'Flight delayed.''
More time in another interminable terminal.
But this time there’s a part of me that’s glad, that wants to wallow in the delay, because today’s the day we land. [[Final destination]].
Today’s the day all the travelling ends and our new life begins. I’m scared and this delay is like pushing the [[snooze button]]...(enchant:?page,(background:blue))We could keep travelling.
Why settle anywhere?
Global nomads, with just the bags on our backs, love in our hearts, our kid at our heels, and [[endless roads to explore]].(enchant:?page,(background:(gradient: 0, 0,#ffffff,0.8501,#e61919,1,#ffffff)))Vancouver...
Far from home for both of us but fairly familiar. Vancouver the handsome younger sibling of Canadian cities. Effortless cute to the point that we all forgive its many failings.
As compromises go it was a pretty good one that my wife and I had found when [[we were lost]].(enchant:?page,(background:orange))//We'd been going 8 months,
starting and stopping and plane hopping.
By boat, and train, bus, car, bike.
On the [[long and short]].
We begn by leaving...//[[A Push|A Push]](enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(background:white))We'd been idling, living, leaving, looking back and longing.
We were
stuck,
straining and
going, going, gone.
And then across a [[bridge]] we walked and wept as we said goodbye to China... [[A Push|A Push]]
(enchant:?page,(background:(gradient: 0, 0,#ffffff,0.9485,#e61919,1,#ffffff)))(b4r:"solid")+(b4r-size:2)+(b4r-colour:white)[Trundling with a
2 year old in a stroller and
2 large suitcases the
2 of them tired and emotional walked the 160m from Hekou (China) to Lao Cai (Vietnam) across the Coc Leu bridge, glanncing back and looking forward.] We needed a push. What we got was a (text-style:"blink")[jolt]. We'd gotten used to things working out sort of [[the way we hoped]] (text-style:"shudder")[until] [[one day it didn't]](enchant:?page,(background:(gradient: 0, 0,#ffffff,0.5,#19e619,1,#ffffff)))(text-colour:black)[We were living [[ordinary lives]]
In an extraordinary [[time and place]]
Which made us feel interesting.](enchant:?page,(text-colour:white)+(background:blue))Miscarriage [[...]](enchant:?page,(background:red))
#Beijing: 2002 - 2010!
* Curious to us looking in, equally so to those looking out
* Changing rapidly
* Optimism unleashed
* Carefree for you and for me
(text-style:"italic")[...but it couldn't last for [[the 2 of us ]]](enchant:?page,(background:magenta))An innocuous word to describe someone's world turned upside down.
As we rode back from the hospital, the life we had didn't seem all that great compared to the life we didn't.
[[the 2 of us ]], (text-style:"bold","emboss","expand")[in the backseat of a Beijing taxi we're left latching on to an idea cause lashing out is not an option - who to be angry with? We'd leave, hit the road, move somewhere new, [[somewhere]]](enchant:?page,(background:green))
1. Married
2. Our first child
3. Jobs we mostly liked
4. Fun friends
5. Weekends on the Wall
6. Hotpot and Jian Bing(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(background:(gradient: 0, 0,#ffffff,0.5,#e5e619,1,#ffffff)))Long trips across ''China, Tibet, Vietnam and Malaysia.''
Short trips in ''Sweeden, UK, Ireland and the USA''(enchant:?page,(text-colour:black)+(background:white))''VANCOUVER''
As compromises go... not her home, not mine...this one doesn't feel like a compromise at all.