Time for an update.
Lindy has returned from her journey, as you know, and she has completed her journal. We will publish it here as soon as possible.
It’s full of wonderful descriptions, insights, and interesting encounters. It is being transcribed from her school teacherish handwriting into digital form appropriate for a blog.
But the photos she took on her disposable cameras are trapped somewhere in Walmart–land, after she took them in to be developed. We don’t want to publish the journal without the accompanying pictures!
“They haven’t even arrived at the developing plant (somewhere back East),” she wrote in an email. “In transit, says the computer. So, I asked, where exactly is this plant back East? Oh there are many, many of them! If one can’ t handle it the film will be sent to another plant, etc. etc . So saith the computer in its nicest (completely indifferent) voice (font).
It could take weeks. It’s already taken weeks! WalMart Man promised to text me when the time comes. I am not really a person, after all. Just a digit of some kind.”
So I’ll keep calm and carry on (I guess)
Love, OOW #whatever”
A few days later she told me on the phone that she is not exactly keeping calm, but is rather in decompression mode. Just like the astronauts who return from outer space, she said, it is taking a long time for her to readjust to her previous environment.
She feels fine, no longer ill, just not in the mood to interact with lots of people. It was so busy and noisy during the journey that she is rather treasuring her solitude.
If you have stayed with us this far, perhaps you recall the reason this blog exists. If you joined recently, and did not go back and start the journey from the beginning, perhaps you’re not aware.
We have gone to the effort of telling you all about Lindy , recounting her first journey down the Danube, her life’s journey, and soon her final journey in hope that we can recover the cost of revisiting her first journey down the Danube.
During that first journey, Lindy traveled with a friend who is blind, and who fell gravely ill at the start of the trip. Lindy spent the entire first cruise caring for her ill friend, praying her companion would survive, and missing almost all the pleasures Of the journey she had spent most of her savings to enjoy as her last great adventure. Our goal has been to raise the funds allow her to repeat the trip, and enjoy it this time.
Thanks to a generous discount from Viking River Cruises itself, as well as donations from friends and friends of friends, we have been able to raise most of the cost of the trip she has just taken. However, we are still short of our goal, and therefore have not restored Lindy’s meager savings.
Please consider logging on to Angelink.com and adding a small contribution, however modest, to help assure that Lindy’s journey Is a remarkable memory, and not a dangerous financial burden, to this person who has spent her life in service to others.
Watch this space! The journey will continue as soon as possible.
If you have just come to the journey at this point, please start the chronicle from the beginning to learn the rest of her fascinating story.
Lyndie's Journey 