Can Get There from Here

Hunkered down in Portsmouth NH tonight at the Sheraton, after a busy Friday night graduation ceremony for my son Chance. Lil is finally free for the summer with the teaching season over. It really is the first time in a long time that we have all been on the road together. It is so different to be traveling just for the sake of being with family. We are headed up to Cannan Maine to visit with relatives. It is so different than the past few months of catching flights and there solely to report and write. I get to watch their reactions. It also can be shaky; Lil left her satchel at a clam bar in Salisbury Beach. The kind of place that has been frying clams since 1948. As we fought the traffic through Hampton Beach she noticed the bag was missing as well as our passports. (We are heading to Quebec City after Cannan) Frantically fighting Sunday beach traffic we headed back to the clam shack. Sure enough a young guy gave the satchel to the order taker. Thanks who ever you are, you have saved our trip. Ah family vacations!