So, yes, our voyage is about family, about genetic, historical and emotional connections, both in Norway and in Denmark. There are the immediate generational connections to cousins (coming from the same parents two or three generations back) and to cousins' children. Kinship is traced through pictures, through memories of previous visits both here and in the United States, through forebears who immigrated and forebears who immigrated and then came back. So we count the genealogies linking Charlotte to Erik and his wife Helga, to Bodil, and to their children and to their children's children.
But then there are also new links to families we just begin to know to Lene and Joern (with whom we have exchanged houses and neighbors) and to their siblings Annette and Henne and friend Karin. New connections...which given time may expand also and grow. These are the connections that deepen with time and go far beyond the impressions of cities and towns and landscapes and weather. And which make voyages lasting parts of who we are.
