As he churned through the water—unaffected by cold or fatigue—he let his mind wander through all he had seen and the people from his life to whom he had never said good-bye, people now gone for thousands of years. His father. His mother. His children. His beloved wife. Finish your journey and you will know. He wondered when that would be. He wondered what he had to learn. Mostly he wondered, as he crossed the ocean
