I Didn't Expect to Find You.

by kDen. Surprenant (United States of America)

I didn't expect to find USA

I didn’t expect to find you. I wasn’t looking for a home. I had one, as far as I could tell. It was somewhere I’d stayed safe for the better part of three decades. Stayed comfortable. Stayed in control. Where I knew the twists and turns, the streets, where the old K-Mart used to stand - the old, familiar buildings now cracked and peeling. I knew what it used to look like, what is was, and where it was headed. Or so I thought. What I didn’t know was that everything was about change. We took a trip on a whim and I found myself 5,000 miles away from that safe space. Where the culture was remarkably different. Where the streets had names I could not pronounce. Where I had no idea what had come before, what was upcoming, or even, sometimes, what I was looking at in the present. Based on all of that uncertainty, we decided we had to make this newfound gem our home. Two months later, we boarded a plane with two kids, three pets, and everything we owned carefully selected and crammed into eight boxes that weighed less than 50 pounds a piece. Ready to find out what the world had in store for us. And what a wild ride it’s been. I didn’t expect to find my home here. I wasn’t even looking for a new start. What I do know is I found you. Here.