What's so far been the most unexpected journey you've ever had in real life ?

[Holbytlass]

a time long ago, i had lived about two decades of life, two years into marriage, and pregnancy number two when husband dropped me, child one and two great danes in a little house with two stories (technically-loft) on an intersection of two country roads with two neighbors and two stores (convenience store that didn't even sell gas, and a post office) for six months-six wintry snowy months and i had lived in the south where it never snowed.
a job lost and new one found caused husband to live and work in another part of the country so he could only come home one weekend a month.


a time when phones were still landed and some still corded. only the wealthy, not rich,wealthy had mo-bile phones in vehicles or bags and the coolest thing for the commoners was the pager (fine, pause a moment and ask your grand/parent what that is)...a time before phone companies offered anything unlimited. long distance pricing was still based on "per minute".

there was such a thing as cablevision, but that was a luxury we couldnt afford. in the far reaches of that wintry mountainous land even the antennae didnt work as in no t.v!! didnt have a radio (packed up)-the only i had was some books and three vhs tapes "sister Act" "forrest gump" and "maverick"

no tv, no radio, no phone calls (remember each minute cost dearly), and a vehicle that kept breaking down, no computer, no internet, facebook-ipods-netflix-myspace didnt even exist

town was an hour away so no going there for every little thing!
just me and our one year old and two dogs. it was rough, weird and unexpected but i'm glad for that experience... i found my inner strength