Always in motion is the future.

Luke: “I saw…  I saw a city in the clouds.”
Yoda: “Friends you have there.”
Luke: “They were in pain.”
Yoda: “It is the future you see.”
Luke: “The future? Will they die?”
Yoda: “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.”
Luke: “I’ve got to go to them.”
Yoda: “Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.”

Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

We traveled 8 hours on Thursday up to Dad Windu’s old college stomping grounds with another 9 hours to return home yesterday. We visited houses perched on the sides of a valley, perpetually gazing at the narrow lake below. We observed snowmobiles fly along abandoned railroad lines and crossing the bottom level of a lift bridge. We haunted the local library (as we are known to do) and asked about homeschooling groups in the area. We learned of one of those snowmobile riders who, while we were in the library, tried to cross that narrow lake’s ice cover but didn’t quite make it. The owner, terribly cold but fine, now the owner of a sled sitting at the bottom of that narrow lake. We sat in the hotel’s hot tub and talked about high school, hockey, miles traveled, and life in the Great Frozen Midwest with another family of travelers. We saw an eastern skyline blushing pink at the audacity of a brazen orange sunset.