Almost gone.

I'm almost ready to head out. Well, no I'm not at all ready but ready or not, we hit the road on Sunday.  I hope this is the right move. It is strange to be leaving after being here for 27 years. I've lived here longer than anywhere else, but I don't think of myself as an Alaskan. I don't even think of myself as an Oregonian anymore, and that's where I was born. I'm just Nancy, about to be released from exile. It's been a nice exile for the most part, but it has been exile nevertheless.

I haven't been on a road trip in a long time, so it will be nice to be with my best baby, heading down the highway. I always said I'd never drive the Al-can until I was driving out, leaving Alaska forever. Three more days and I will be.