Well, I’m on my way back home to Durban, ZA. ZA stands for South Africa by the way. Thank you, everyone who is supporting me in this journey. Thank you for the financial, spiritual, and emotional support. I will do my best to share this experience with you. So please check back often.

Here goes an unsolicited plug. Mega Bus is a pretty awesome way to travel. Its seats are comfortable enough, for a bus. The free wifi is right on time. The driver is friendly. And, the price is fabulous.

Right now we are driving through Indianapolis, IN on our way to Chicago. I thought, as I posted on Facebook, that I was going to catch a little sleep on the bus. After the first couple of hours I dozed for a few minutes.

I’ve finally started reading Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial + Bicultural, a collection of essays edited by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn.

I’ve had this collection in our family library since before we were married, yet never read it. Today’s journey back to the first place that I felt a real sense of home is the perfect opportunity for the two of us to get thoroughly acquainted.

I miss Furaha and our kids already. Normally I don’t really feel that I’m distanced enough to truly ‘miss’ them. But this time it’s not really an emotional miss. It’s more of an understanding that for three weeks or lives will go in very different directions.

There’s an episode of Star Trek Voyager where Tuvok describes his relationship to his wife and kids. Instead of love, he says something along the lines of his family being an inseparable part of his very being. Missing my wife and children is kind of like that. Now someone, please find that episode and let me know which one it is.

More to come.