{"id":441,"date":"2017-04-04T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T07:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martynstrailnotes.wordpress.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2021-12-29T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T15:50:22","slug":"departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/04\/departures\/","title":{"rendered":"Departures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,
\nAnd sorry I could not travel both
\nAnd be one traveler, long I stood
\nAnd looked down one as far as I could
\nTo where it bent in the undergrowth;<\/i>
\nThen took the other, as just as fair,
\nAnd having perhaps the better claim,
\nBecause it was grassy and wanted wear;
\nThough as for that the passing there
\nHad worn them really about the same,<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>And both that morning equally lay
\nIn leaves no step had trodden black.
\nOh, I kept the first for another day!
\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,
\nI doubted if I should ever come back.<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i><\/i>I shall be telling this with a sigh
\nSomewhere ages and ages hence:
\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I\u2014
\nI took the one less traveled by,
\nAnd that has made all the difference.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Robert Frost, The Road Not taken<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The time has almost come to leave the rat-race behind and head for the woods. \u00a0I’ve already hugged a number of dear friends, knowing it will be many months before I am again in London to see them. \u00a0It is bittersweet, almost melancholy. An exciting time ahead comes at the cost of a comfortable and beloved home, people, routine, and surrounding. \u00a0Four days from the airport I feel very much at a\u00a0junction, one road less traveled and uncertain, and the other safe, predictable and happy. \u00a0I wonder if Frost regretted his choice?\u00a0Or was it his salvation? \u00a0I suppose\u00a0there is only one way to find out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I \u2014
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