This ain't right...

How will I know where to put my feet?  Little Izzy is slinking around with her belly about an inch off the ground.  There's no foot pedal on this toilet.  The bed isn't rocking me to sleep.

After 5 1/2 months onboard Wild Blue every night, last night we slept in a house.  With a rectangle bed.  You could actually fall out of this bed because the walls don't come right up to the side of the berth... um, bed.  We are visiting our daughter and son-in-law... in the middle of the desert.  Wild Blue is in storage for a week or so.  We would be living out of a suitcase... if we had a suitcase.  There's no room for a suitcase on a boat, so we're living out of a couple bins and some bags.

The transition to dirt dwelling is disconcerting.  Back in our younger years, we traveled by plane, spending almost every weekend in a different hotel.  With a different bed.  Different noises in the night.  These days, moving to a different bed will take a few nights to get used to... and then we'll be rolling again.  The rectangle bed felt decadently odd... with all that space down at our feet.  Little Izzy could actually hide out under the bed.  And she did.  Until well into the night, and then she began doing laps across the bed, down onto the floor, under the bed, back up on the bed, across my back... yeah, I'm not going to get used to that.

It is great to see the kids; 7 months is too long.  Oh, texting and talking on the phone is OK, but certainly not the same as getting a hug.  OK, lots of hugs.

The kids have opened their home to us, but everyone's routine is different.  Great to be here, but the house doesn't have that familiar movement of a boat on the water.  The inner-spring mattress doesn't have that my-body-fits-here feeling of Wild Blue's v-berth.  Neither of us slept much.  This bedroom has about the same square footage as Wild Blue's entire cabin.

We're up early this morning, talking in quiet tones.  The accommodations are different, but the hugs are familiar.  I may need a nap later, but this is good.