I’ve been in Minneapolis for about a week and Minnesota for nearly a month now. Jill and I are slowly visiting family and friends.Currently we are holed up while we watch two doggies for a few days. We are going to work at the State Fair, and that will fill up our time quite a bit. We have not been idle since we paused here; it feels a bit like I should be going back to work and rejoin the lives we left here. That certainly isn’t our objective, and it makes me a little bitter. We have found a bar called The Freehouse in the North Loop neighborhood. We serendipitously fell in with a crowd of the regulars; it is fun to meet strangers in a place so familiar. Steve is a pilot, Laura is a romantic, Justin a traveler, Mona, and Brittany are the bartenders and always quick with a joke. We’ve been asked many times about our plans for the future. I usually let Jill answer. She will look for a job in Southeast Asia, and we will head over there for a while. I am not sure of my specific answer to the question yet. I hope something will present itself along the way, and I have little doubt something will. That’s hard to express to people not accustomed to living by the seats of their pants’.