The Night Before

I am sitting here with just a few hours before we leave and I am about 90% done with all my packing.  Much of what is left is just toiletries and electronics that are still charging.  I am excited and feeling just a teensy bit anxious with the hope I haven’t forgotten anything too important.  Luckily, I will have a couple of days travel in the States if I need to purchase anything else.

I was really hoping to get videos out to you with my tool kit and other essentials I have packed.  Maybe they would make good on the road segments.  Tomorrow we will be shoving off at about 10am with a long day ahead of us.  My folks will be here along with my wife and son to wish us well.  We had a last dinner tonight before the big trip and I thought about how tough it is going to be missing 5 weeks of his little life when he is only a hair past one year old.  It feels like he will be interviewing for jobs and asking for the car keys when I get back.  It is terrifying to think about how quickly he is growing up and I am going to miss a sizable portion of it.

This idea was always a hard one to rationalize but when I was discussing these types of trips in the early days, we thought about why it felt so important to do.  I really want to be able to tell my son that when an idea enters my head, I find a way to get to “yes”.  There are a billion easy ways to say no to things that seem difficult.  People do it every day in thousand of little ways and it slowly chips away at who they are (or at least who they could be).  I want to show him how starting with yes and following the path of positivity can lead to some amazing places.  We can all start with little steps and after a while when you look back, you realize just how far you’ve come.  I need to be that model and the sacrifices I am making now will pay off when those lessons are learned.  I look forward to continuing on this path and serving as an inspiration to my son to never accept no as the final answer.  Always continue to push forward and like the waters that cut through mighty mountains, find a way.

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