49 reasons to fly home

Well, the day has come at last for this trip of ours to come to an end. Among many other things, travel allows you to appreciate what makes home, home. This is a quick list of the many things we are looking forward to in the days, weeks, and months ahead. Having fit in well below goldfish crackers and barely above grilled hot dogs, our family and friends should take note that this is in no particular order.

1. Annie’s mac and cheese
2. A pint of Heady Topper
3. A pint of TLA from American Flatbread
4. A flatbread from American Flatbread
5. Cabot cheese
6. The price of gasoline
7. The price of alcohol
8. A hot, green summer
9. A crisp, colorful autumn
10. A cold, snowy winter
11. A dresser full of different clothes
12. People speaking English the way we speak it
13. Being a local
14. Maple trees and maple syrup
15. Gerard’s sourdough bread
16. Good bagels
17. The view of Mt. Mansfield from our front window
18. Our favorite swimming holes
19. American sports on television
20. Baseball on the radio
21. Goldfish crackers
22. Being able to have a campfire when you go camping
23. Kettle brand kettle chips
24. Rolling hills covered in trees
25. Fireflies
26. Wiffleball
27. Friends
28. Family
29. Grilled hot dogs
30. Large pizzas that are actually large
31. Having a house
32. Seeing animals other than sheep
33. Farmhouses
34. Good mexican food
35. Fast, free internet
36. A night out in Burlington
37. Thunderstorms
38. Accurate weather forecasts
39. Having a job
40. Having money
41. Men wearing shorts that cover their white thighs
42. Cheerios
43. Christmas in winter
44. Thanksgiving
45. The 4^th of July
46. Being able to forget that the sport of cricket exists
47. Road trips to Maine
48. Pandora radio
49. Living in a country where rat tails are not considered fashionable

We do have several more things to share here before our lives slide into un-bloggable routine, but it will have to wait till we are on the couch stuffing our faces with a nice fat bowl of Cheerios.