Last Day

***Miles travelled today: shall add this tomorrow / next day as a final total after we've returned our lovely flash car (which Duncan, we know you like)

***Total Miles:

***States travelled through: still in Massachusettes

Well, I've begun to write this penultimate entry whilst Linz has gone down to the bar to borrow their corkscrew opener as we're Having to drink the final bottle of 'Very-Nice-Ice-Wine' . As everyone already knows, it feels strange to say our adventure has come to an end as we're expecting that tomorrow we'd wake up, have breakfast and move on to a different experience, another State. The fact is, is that we've settled into this 'way of life'; almost like travelling, exploring and learning have become our 'reality' if that makes sense. Everyone says that learning 'requires time' to assimilate and we've decided today, that in a few years time; we'll broaden our horizons once again. That should be enough time to assimilate and to agree where the next few destinations will be, but in the meantime, we return to work next week in our attempt to pay off this experience :) (I'm guessing there are already work 'opportunities' awaiting our return).

Just as an aside, the Ice Wine we're drinking is the 2008 Late Harvest from the winery we visited on Niagara-on-the-Lake many many weeks ago and I'm figuring that if my writing goes off on tangents that make no sense, Linz will translate into English when I read the entry back to her.....which reminds me (and to answer some questions we've been asked).....our entries are 'jointly' written unless the other is asleep or slightly tipsy. By 'jointly', we mean that one 'authors' the entry whilst the other agrees or passes comment and the 'author' may / not decide to act upon 'said contributions' - and that is how we've avoided any potential mishaps [which we realised there Would be from the email we initially sent everyone with our blog address as that very short message, took us both ages - simply because we write / speak differently =) Linz says she writes factually whilst I 'write flower-y' ].

Back to this quest coming to an end.....

Given the beautiful day today, we thought it would be lovely to take a scenic drive around the Cape Cod Peninsula as opposed to travelling to Martha's Vineyard. This was because we hadn't pre-booked tickets and by the time we got down to the ferry port, the stand-bys were sold out. Well, a good day is not to be wasted and so we made our way through villages that appeared quaint and provincial, stopping at a market to have lunch before carrying on our way. We felt quite carefree as we listened to this Portuguese radio station that not only played 'Portuguese Country' (go figure) but played music that reminded us of family back home in South Africa -whenever we play Portuguese music in the car, it reminds us of Charlie (brother-in-law) who has to have it on full blast when travelling anywhere, and so today, like on so many other days; we've carried special people with us.

Our discussions today and of late, have again been typically thoughtful and poignant and at times, very funny. The feelings are surreal and although we've been winding down; it's with that same feeling of 'not believing it's happening' . We've both learned so much - Linz says she's learned 'not to be too stressey about stuff' and I've learned that 'there Is still a World of opportunities to live and explore'.

What we've also learned and would like to thank people for, is their generosity of spirit in keeping up with our blog. Although we never set out to write every day; comments and questions have Made this blog - because without them, the blog would be merely a representation of our trip - our point of view and not how others have experienced our photographic representation of our encounters.

And so for this, we both thank you. Hope you've enjoyed the journey with us.

Sus - Tia Linz took the picture of the duck just for you. Only three more sleeps and we'll see you on Thursday.

XXX