Look, guys, couldn’t we just get a nice hotel with a hot tub, for once? I don’t want to sleep in the desert again!

Eyes wild, my youngest child

Stared at her sister and at me.

"You have a death wish, both of you!

No more adventuring!" but we

Could see the road ahead of us,

And so we planned, and so we schemed,

To sink our teeth into each one

Of the adventures we had dreamed.