Golden Bay #2

To say I have not sat in some strange part of the world lonely, scared and afraid with tears in my eyes and ask god give me strength to face the crap and then within a flash my mind is filled of the view of the Bay, warm, sunny and green as I had so often viewed it over the many years as a child and young man and wished I was back home, is so unbelievable, it is beyond belief for anyone to imagine. Those thoughts and dreams have given me strength to go on when all has seemed to be lost. Then gritted my teeth and gone on and persevered with the pains of loneliness and fear.

Let's see how good my memory is after all these years, remember it is now some twenty years since I last drove the road home and then it was my brother who was driving and the last time he saw the valley and on the way out we stopped at the rock for one last view of the valley together. I think in all honesty he knew then he did not have many good years left. It was the last time he was to see the valley of our home and we shared that moment. Sadly, he died in a foreign land that had become his home. In not so many words, I think, he wished he could go home from the way he was talking that day on the rock but I can never be sure other than to say his memories of the Bay had been long lasting like mine, even though he had some nasty memories of things that had happened to him there. A place that god had truly blessed with such beauty and gave so much peace to us both.

To be continued.