I write this post with a heavy heart as Nadia and I drove our son Owen to the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport. He departed for a two-year mission with the United States Peace Corps in Costa Rica. It is a bittersweet morning for us as we are so proud of the young man Owen has become and heartbroken that we will not be seeing him in person for quite a while. He brings joy and positive energy to our family when he is with us.
The flight left at 6:30 AM to Minneapolis, where he will connect to Miami for two days of orientation and training. My village of Caspian is a 1-hour and 20-minute drive from Rhinelander, so we left early this morning at 4:05 AM. It is a standard small-town regional airport. It was raining this morning, but it cleared up on our way back to Caspian.
We celebrated our final day with Owen by playing tennis, helping him pack, and then we all went to see the new Superman movie in Quinnesec. It was an OK movie, giving us the typical DC movie experience.
I wish the best of luck to Owen and hope you have a formative life experience and do some good in the world! It is funny that both Nadia and I shared a Costa Rican experience and now our son will be having his time in the land of “Pura Vida”. Our family believes in service to others, and we are so proud that Owen will be representing the USA and making a difference in the lives of “Ticos”.
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