After 22 hours of endless daylight flights from London to Dallas to San Diego, we are finally home.

Our adventure began four weeks ago in Scandinavia. Amazingly, all of our flights and connections worked throughout 3 1/2 weeks of constant travel and three countries. Our good luck held until we were ready to fly home.

Then, despite hours and days of cancellation travails in Nice, we managed to finally escape to London, where we created new and unplanned adventures and memories. We even got to see a fantastic musical in a gorgeous Covent Garden theatre about Tina Turner that used her songs to tell her life story.

While are tired, a bit ragged and seriously jet lagged (I’m writing this at 4 am), we came home joyful and proud of all we did and the 5-8 miles pace we kept up every day.

And , retrospectively, all the delays, frustrations, additional fees and customer service experiences have only added to the tapestry of this journey.

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