diff --git a/content/posts/2021/10/pnw-reunion-trip/friends.jpg b/content/posts/2021/10/pnw-reunion-trip/friends.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0a576b Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/2021/10/pnw-reunion-trip/friends.jpg differ diff --git a/content/posts/2021/10/pnw-reunion-trip/index.md b/content/posts/2021/10/pnw-reunion-trip/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c47d67e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2021/10/pnw-reunion-trip/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: "PNW Reunion Trip" +date: 2021-10-16T12:00:00-07:00 +draft: false +resources: +- name: friends + src: "friends.jpg" + title: "" +tags: ["Travel", "Pandemic", "Friends"] +--- + +{{< post_figure name=friends >}} + +I'm writing this in the airport having just spend a week with a group of friends +who mean the world to me. For the past 18 months, we have been spending our +Monday nights on Zoom with each other. They've been an anchor of my week, +consistently one of the highlights, and a vital community during the COVID-19 +pandemic, when I was often feeling otherwise isolated. + +Way back at the beginning of the pandemic, we talked about getting together when +it wound down. Surely by August 2020, we all thought. Lol. + +Nearly a year later, we started planning. Amazingly, we all made it through the +hours of calls devoted to AirBnbs and rental cars and the harrowing adventure of +traveling during a pandemic. We stayed together in Portland, OR for a few days +and then drive up the Olympic Peninsula to a grand old house in the forest. From +there we hiked and kayaked. We ate together and laughed and played music. We +finished our trip with a ferry ride to Seattle, WA. + +I'm so grateful for every one of these people. We've been friends for years and +even though our lives have taken us in so many different directions, we've found +each other again and that is so wonderful. + +{{< twitter 1447951049076056071 >}} \ No newline at end of file