The first step

So what brought me to Australia? Why am I ten thousand miles away from home?  It's because of love.  I met a woman who has changed my life.  I've changed hers too, but that's a whole other story. We met by accident and fell head over heels.  She came to visit me in Louisiana, and then six weeks later I followed my heart and hopped on a plane to Australia.  This blog is to record our journey together.

Here is where it started....

A few days after we first met in Louisiana, we went headed to downtown New Orleans. This photo was taken on the Mississippi River on a small dock, right across from Cafe Du Monde.  I wonder if our names are still on that post?

I found this song tonight while I sat and wrote this post.  Or maybe it found me?



Here are the lyrics -

Fare you well my own true love
And farewell for a while.
I’m going away, but I’ll be back
If I go ten thousand miles.

Ten thousand miles, my own true love,
Ten thousand miles or more,
And the rocks may melt and the seas may burn,
If I no more return.

Oh don’t you see that lonesome dove,
Sitting on yon ivy tree,
She’s weeping for her own true love
Just as I shall weep for mine.

Oh come back my own true love
And stay a while with me
For if I had a friend all on this earth,
You’ve been a friend to me.

And fare you well my own true love
And farewell for a while.
I’m going away, but I’ll be back
If I go ten thousand miles.