Long Way Home

Ahh, the fabulous weekend of friends is drawing to a close as I blog from bed. We decided to take a scenic route home ... well, it ended up being more scenic than previously planned because I missed a turn, but it added about 200 more miles of breathtaking scenery so it wasn't a regrettable misstep in the least. In the words of Sandra McCracken, "It’s not what we expected / not what we had planned / but maybe it is better / than we can understand ... i wanna take the long way home / the long way home."

Here's the route, if you're curious what exactly I mean by "long way home":


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Long Way Home (full lyrics, which apply so well both to live and to this route)

It’s not what we expected
not what we had planned
but maybe it is better
than we can understand

like finding a good reason
in a bottle on the shore
everything will have it’s season
nobody’s keeping score

this is not how I thought that it would be
waiting on some circumstance, to make me feel complete

innocence, we pass it down
like corduroys with the knees worn out
i wanna take the long way home
the long way home

i’m driving in slow motion
on streets of might-have been’s
put to rest my reservations
A new day to begin

this is not how I thought that it should go
drag me around and around the things I thought I should know

love is not efficient, but even if it was…

innocence lost and found
like quarter tones that pass the hour
i wanna take the long way home