In 2 weeks I’ll be going back to Cape Town. I think I’m beginning to get excited.

At first I didn’t want to go. Frankly, I haven’t felt like going anyway this year. (I never put “Frankly” on paper before.)

Oh wait. This isn’t paper.

It will be nearly Winter there. Chilly and wet then sunny and warm.

I’m going to surf. As much as I can. Get it out of my system, I guess. I’m not sure if we will be ever going back. Too many bad experiences and memories for us both. I will miss my friends there and family. I love my SA family. They have been so welcoming to me. I really do feel like their family. Grateful.

Feeling a bunch of Grateful to day. Finally.

I’m now going to end this one. I just dumped 5 or 6 drafts onto my blog. Hardly checked them. I just needed to get rid of them all. My heart hasn’t been in the writing for a while. Maybe now I can start again.

Easter is a pretty good new beginnings time.

Betty and I are hiking up the “Stairway to Heaven” and camping overnight on Pochunk Mountain. Last time I did this hike there was 18 inches of snow on the ground! I walked in snowshoe tracks for 10 miles.

Much later:

I’m now in Cape Town. So glad we came. 🙂

A.I.

P.S. I surfed the last two days in a row. I hurt my shoulder and never got to my feet. It was fun in the water as always. I’ll just be doing that on a bodyboard from now on. Me giving up surfing is a big deal. Me being pretty sure I will not finish the AT is another big deal.

Learning to leg go.