Well we're back! That was incredible. I've been asked a few times now about my favorite part of the three weeks, but I don't really have one. It was all so different, and so amazing. Soon I'll be putting up some excerpts from the travel journal I kept.

Tonight it's Hallowe'en, and we're heading off to the East Bay to help run a haunted house for kids that Troy does every year. It's odd to have dropped back in to regular life here so quickly after having been so disconnected while we were gone... but that's normal.

I'm happy that tonight it's raining up here, and I pray that there will be more cool weather and rain in Southern California to help end the wildfires. Not only have they been generally devastating, but they came perilously close to my dad's and my brother's new homes. Happily, the winds turned and neither of them were evacuated, but as long as everything is still on fire, I worry.