Our trip

We left one Saturday and came back the next.  We had been to St.Simons Island off the coast of Georgia before.

Lynn has a stronger desire for trips that I do.  She often selects a destination and asks if I'd like to spend some time there.  Her parents were born in Ironwood, Michigan.  Ironwood grew up on mines.  Her father's family is Finnish and the town of Ironwood now is listed at about 5,000 people.  Her dad had a strong desire for education and arranged to get a master's degree.  He met Lynn's mother in high school.  With a few stops in between, he found work and interest in Washington, D.C.  Relatives in Detroit and Ironwood were a continuous draw for Lynn's family during her childhood.  

Another aspect of trips and thinking of elsewhere was the background of Lynn's mother, the daughter of a Cuban sister who had accompanied her sister out of Cuba as the wife of a Swedish mining expert from Ironwood who met his wife on a special trip to fix problems in a Cuban mine.  There are few Cubans in Ironwood.  

It is also true that Lynn keeps house carefully and rigorously so a trip to some place with less housekeeping is a pleasure. 

My family is split between New Englanders and rural Marylanders and I have not developed the desire for trips that Lynn has.  My first major trip was early in my college teaching when my university accepted me as the leader of a Semester Abroad group to England.  

I have been accepting my quiet, lazy attitude toward less trips and the two of us have been wondering if she is going to have to satisfy her travel drives without me.  She has done some of that before and could repeat the practice.  But I can see that some disruption and travel and relocation can be helpful prods for me, too.  Flight times and required waits of hours, not having something left at home, there are always little differences that can be a pain,