It’s back to our Portland home this morning after a full week of sunshine. The cool temperatures will be a welcome relief but rain is in the forecast. I’ll have some financing paperwork to complete once I get back in my home office. The unavoidable connection through Seattle will extend our flight time and delay arrival into PDX. In addition, I’m struggling for step count today after running only the minimum mile this morning. Yesterday, I did the same short distance before an early 9-holes and barely made the 10,000 daily goal. This was all after 85 consecutive 5k days of running from my home base. Traveling often disrupts daily routines, often in the interest of welcome variety.

I did sell-off a portion of my IRA today, after some big drops this past week. I wanted to secure our new home down payment in a risk-free savings account. We’ll need at least 20% down when the contracts are signed in the next two months. More will come out after the first of the year for tax purposes. The building process is six-months that we’ll need to begin in August. Our apartment lease is through March of 2020, so timing is imperative.

Once we get back to Portland tonight, we will start a new stay-at-home stretch of 42 days before driving to Glacier National Park. We will then not fly again until mid-September, after a long haul to Florida in late August. Hopefully, we were lucky in avoiding contact with the crippling virus, although I still contend the flights and hotels were the safest parts of our journey. Restaurants were the worst! I feel I got too close to my grand-kids even with limited hugs and no kisses. God forbid that any of us get sick! Dodging the virus seems more a game of luck than skill.