1200 miles, Walking the last four blocks

After twenty hours of driving, we were all of a sudden driving past the University of Montana campus. In a cold rain. I knew our house was only four blocks away. I hadn't seen it yet, except for five months of viewing electronic videos and looking at the location with Google maps. Laurie let me out of the car, with my dog Kenai on the leash. After 1200 miles of driving I'll walk the last four blocks. Large maple trees in full fall foilage lined the streets I was walking down. Soon I came to the park, walked out into the middle of it, where I met Laurie. I could see it - three houses in from the park - it was a surreal feeling. We walked together to our new home, and stood there in the cold rain hardly believing it all.