I'm using the bathroom counter in the hotel as a standing desk. Eight hours of driving today got me a world of hurt but didn't get me quite as many states as a few hours of driving through New England did. I traversed Pennsylvania from end to end and a good bit of Ohio. I've never been to the north of the state, and as I drove toward the bridge over Sandusky Bay, the beauty of the shimmering silver water took my breath away.
It was one of those vacation-in-a-moment moments.
I'm pausing overnight in Port Clinton, a town on Lake Erie, in a mid-century motel on the lake. I sat outside my room and watched the sky turn shades of lavender and orange as the sun set. The only thing that mars the view is the belching cooling tower of a nuclear power plant on a distant shore.
I wanted something new, and that's exactly what I got.
I love the adventure of discovery. There's something rich and abundant about moving through never-before-seen-by-me landscapes and breathing new air. I thought I'd had my fill on the New England road trip, but am glad to have sqeezed in a few more. Tomorrow I'll drive past Toledo and across northern Indiana to Chicago. I never thought I'd make this drive to see my daughter. I usually fly. But there were things at my place I want to bring her, items she selected from my mother's home in the days following her death two years ago. We're both looking at the things we came away with with new eyes and integrating them into our homes. I think it's good that they've been unlooked at and untouched during this time.
A bit of undiscovered country to open and unfold.
Fall-ing in Love: 40 Days of Noticing is a daily writing practice that opens a landscape of discovery into my own human experience.
Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions of the small things in life.
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