Ups and downs
It's been almost four weeks since I arrived here on Orcas Island and eight weeks to the day since the ferry delivered Shareen and I here for the first time and this whole adventure revealed itself as a possibility. Maybe you remember when we were here in September, we learned from the matriarch of the farm we stayed on that they needed some help with the farm - cleaning it up from the tourist season and getting it ready for winter - and doing some remodeling work on a couple of other properties they own. That's the conversation that set this plan in motion. Shareen and I got home from our trip, talked about the possibility together, then with the farm family, and decided to have a go. I started at "Can Barely Contain My Excitement" and, at various times, have visited "WTF Am I Doing?!"; been in-between those extremes most of the time. I remember eights days before I set sail from home, I felt 100% pure excitement. The next morning I was walking Georgia pas...