The Red Sea Parts: What Retirement Feels Like

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Scott Smoot on his bike in the Red Sea, virtually. Of course, Moses is going north, and I'm going south.

On my virtual bike tour of the world, I pause for a selfie wherever I have lived or have felt a connection. God's parting the Red Sea for the Hebrews' escape from slavery is certainly a great story, but I struggled to find a personal connection.

When I studied the photo of the iconic scene from the film The Ten Commandments, suddenly it resonated with the most recent period of my life. Those last years of teaching seemed so relentless, a couple of classes were so contentious, and the pandemic upended so much of what I had relied on for 39 years of my teaching career, that retirement is very much like what we see in Cecille B. DeMille's film. Oh, I do feel a clearing of my path to my end.

Enough said.

Miles YTD 1931 || 2nd World Tour Total 18,549 miles since June 2020 || Next Stop: TBA

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