1554 Ready to stay home for awhile

After a week in Florida in February, a week in Illinois in April, July and August at Lakeside interrupted by five days in Oklahoma and Arkansas for a Frank Lloyd Wright - Fay Jones architectural tour, and a September Danube River cruise in Germany and Austria to be followed by another week in Illinois, I'm ready to stay home for awhile. My husband's had even more travel with two trips to California to be with his dying father and then his funeral in March and May. That's why this poem written by my girlfriend Lynne (since highschool) which arrived yesterday in the mail, means so much.

It's grand to go on holiday
and break the set routine.
It's nice to get away, you say
and have a change of scene.
It's tonic, so they say,
to see and to explore
The exciting world outside your door.

But then comes the moment--
you have had enough!

Then it's home you long for
Your own small, cozy kingdom
Where you know just where you are.
Oh, it's good to get back home
and breathe your native air,
And settle in your very own
familiar easy chair.

Thanks, Lynne, my thoughts exactly.