We took the long way Home
Trip Start
Aug 11, 2005
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Trip End
May 22, 2006
Calgary, Canada
Monday, May 22, 2006
The flight was pretty decent on an older plane. We didn't have our own personal televisions, but were given our own personal DVD players with a choice of about ten films. Air Canada is upgrading some older planes and in the process of improving their service which we definitely noticed in the quality of food. Stuffed and well juiced we passed almost eleven hours on the plane quite painlessly.
What was really neat though was flying over Iceland and Greenland. We saw the southern shore of Iceland. It was mostly a brown slate color of barren land with snow-capped mountains a couple of miles inland. We gasped and gasped and tried to get a photo, but by the time I was able to get out the camera, it had clouded over. Going over Greenland however, we did get some photos.
Greenland was completely snow-capped and the icebergs in the Arctic Ocean resembled white puzzle pieces just slightly separated from each other. Massive glaciers with huge crevasse began in the sea and continued until hitting the completely snow-covered jagged mountain range. Now, we've seen some pretty beautiful mountain ranges in this trip: The Andes, The Swiss Alps, The German Alps, The New Zealand Alps, The Canadian Rockies, but we must admit that these were the most spectacular of all.
One of the most amazing features that Gerald pointed out was how we could see the flow of the glacier. As we mentioned earlier in the journal, glaciers move like very slow moving rivers. Well, these glaciers had ripple marks in them and crevasse that made the flow very visible. We couldn't tear our eyes away from the beauty of Greenland. Who'd have thunk it?
We arrived in Calgary, skirting huge thunderstorms, about a half hour late, but sailed through immigration and the baggage area as we'd managed to return carry-on only. As expected my mom and dad were very excited. My Aunt Betty and Uncle Bob were also there and as we guessed, my Aunt Barb, and Uncle Gary had also hung out to see us arrive home. Many kisses, hugs, and tears were shared and photos taken. We soon hopped into the van for the three hour trip to Beaumont to Tamalyn's parents' home.
Well, this is it. We are home. After 286 days of travelling and 6 ½ years of living in Bermuda, we are home. We don't quite know where exactly home will be, but we are home. Let's just hope that reality only nibbles at us.
