Eastertide

Eastertide travel has begun:

Sewanee, Tennessee

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Kingwood, Texas

Sugarland, Texas

And now Baltimore, Maryland, on my way to my

Seventh! Trip! To! Iceland!

My first trip was in 2016, just days after my home flooded in the Tax Day flood.

My second trip was in 2017, only days after Hurricane Harvey, and my newly restored home had flooded. Again. The parish where I was serving encouraged me not to plan another trip to Iceland.

My third trip, 2018, entitled, “Not Iceland,” were shorter stays bookending my first visit to the Faroe Islands.

The fourth trip, 2021, was another bookend to my return visit to the Faroes.

The fifth trip, 2022, was the one where I learned about Icelandic hospitals as my trip home was delayed due to Covid.

The sixth trip, 2024, was the one where my flight from Chicago to Keflavik was cancelled after a lengthy delay, and a new way had to be found two days later out of Minneapolis on a different airline.

I’m waiting for my very best traveling friend to meet me here in Baltimore. Our flight to Iceland leaves this evening. Of course, it being Iceland, nothing is certain until it actually happens.

But somehow, it’s always wonderful.