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Rather than celebrate Valentine's Day with flowers, chocolate, and dinner out, Nic and I bought plane tickets!

Because the timing of this purchase has fallen in the midst of some challenging logistics financially, I have not said much about this trip. Both Nic and I were shocked by the cost of the plane tickets and we have spent the better part of a week recovering from the shock. I am not sure Nic will ever quite recover. My best hope is that he forgets.We are truly blessed by amazing people who generously offered their homes to us to stay in while we travel, otherwise we could never manage this trip.

Truth be told, I feel a little guilty being able to take this trip. I feel embarrassed to admit we are taking another trip. However, I hope to spend the rest of my life taking trips, so I am not sure how to get around that. It might be a form of survivor guilt. I wake up and open my eyes to this life and I cannot believe I live it. I cannot believe it is MY life. For years I would stand in my basement laundry room folding laundry wondering if I would ever really travel again; if the world was beyond my reach. The idea of any of the things I have been able to do in the last 3 years seemed so impossible that I could not fathom them. I did not dare to dream about them.

And yet, here I am planning a trip to Portugal and Spain!

Stay tuned for this summer's adventures. Watch out June, I am getting ready...

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