Preparing to travel....again.

The sun shines. It looks glorious out there...the fish are jumping, the cotton is high...
Today was the day before travelling to Southampton that Michael and I had planned to spend together.
We had started a new process, I would travel to Devon the day before we embarked and thus the long trek from here was taken over two days...
This worked wonderfully well last time but this time I have had to return to the long journey.
Michael booked this cruise but leaving Cornwall in August was always the plan David and I had evolved too in direct contrast to the six weeks I spent here with my children when we were all young.
Today I finish the packing...and tie up the usual loose ends...
Tomorrow I start another epic journey....on my own.
The young taxi driver is one I know well.
Before my liaison with Michael the routine was much the same . We would leave here in the early morning and have a huge breakfast halfway along.
I was always amazed by how much the young man could consume...
I am not looking forward to any of this....it is all filled with memories that are both tender and precious.
Surfing the north coast whilst camping out belongs to a different person. I suppose we all change as we grow old but the young woman I was then seems to have gone, apart from the need to travel...to explore , to take advantage of glorious summers.
I am determined to keep the tears at bay....but the hankies are at the ready....





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