From here on out, Huntsville, Alabama will always feel like home. I joke when people ask about where we are from because we have moved around from various places all throughout our lives, even before we got married. Life is like that sometimes. We only spent a year in Alabama, and during that time we even left many times to visit other places. But it was a significant year in our life together and impacted us a lot in many ways. Changed us a lot in many ways. Ou...

As I'm writing this final entry for this trip, we haven't yet unpacked anything except a few essentials like toothbrushes and toothpaste. It's currently the next day, but there was no time on our eight hour flight yesterday to write since I was busy catching up on movies. I know it's a poor excuse, but it's just usually what happens when I am stuck in one chair for such a long time and there are so many free movies right at my finger tips. Yesterday (the 26th of...

When you are getting ready for any trip, there comes a point when you know you are ready to leave. Absolutely everything is packed, there's nothing more that needs to be done except get where you are going. But there is always something more that must be done. Sometimes it's double checking bags and tickets. Are the doors locked and is the flight on time? Did we pray before we left? Today we began our trip a little this way. Lena and I had absolutely everything p...