Home Again Home Again - Lickety Split - May 23

I believe Gloria Rose is going to post our final adventure day - traveling back to Canada. But I wanted to take the time to add a personal thought - to all of you who over the past few weeks have traveled vicariously with us as we made our journey to (and around) the UK and back. The first thing we did when we got to a computer to blog was check the comments. It seemed ever so important to stay connected with all of you and your thoughts and sharing your experience of our blogs were a great reward. So all of you who took the time to not only read what we wrote but who commented back - thank you!

I also want to say that traveling with my "younger twin" was really a grand experience as well. Gloria Rose and I really didn't know each other very well but we soon found that we had similar if not identical thoughts at the same time. It almost became a standing joke between us - because one of us would say it - and the other would be amazed because that's what she was thinking at that moment! Uncanny.

I want to personally thank Jack for providing Gloria Rose with the freedom to share this adventure with me and for her willingness to leave him behind (physically - he was never far from her thoughts) because this vacation would not have been what it was had it not been for Gloria Rose.

We are home now and it's back to our jobs tomorrow. Thankfully we will have this blog and our scrapbooks of pictures and postcards to remind us of our incredible journey. We will also have rampaging bulls, old goats, jackasses and walking stick growing wild in the fertile Cotswolds ground - to bring laughter to our hearts as we return in our minds to those really special moments. If laughter is good for the soul, we are in very good shape.

We can also hold proudly to the comments of our tour guide - Hugh - "we were good ambassadors for Canada". We certainly did our best to connect with the people and if Leticia's (one of the Cosmos representatives) welcoming hug when we arrived back in London and being the only ones specifically invited for supper on a night the place is normally closed are any indication - we left the place better than we found it!