So, this week’s challenge mentions once-in-a-lifetime events.  Visiting an erupting volcano is about as once-in-a-lifetime as it gets!  On our cruise to Hawaii in 2018, we were treated to an after-dark experience when the cruise ship hovered about a mile offshore the Big Island of Hawaii, and we get all the sensations of a volcano erupting:  sights of fire and brimstone, the smell of sulfur, and the sounds of the red-hot lava hitting the cooler ocean water.  Once in a lifetime, indeed!

One of the best experiences I have had was my three weeks spent in Cambridge, England in the summer of 1991, on a UCLA summer program.  My class was Medieval English Society, and we went on numerous field trips in the surround countryside, to view ancient castles, stately homes, and ruined abbeys.  For me, an inveterate Anglophile, it was magic.

Window at Trinity Hall. Emblems are various groups of Canon Law students through the years.

Dining Hall at Trinity Hall College, where we stayed.

Long Melford Church

High Street, Lavenham. A wool town.

Orford Castle

Castle Rising

It isn’t really a once-in-a-lifetime experience to fly above the clouds, but it is certainly unbound.  I find it awe-inspiring to be able to see clouds from the other side.

Sunset above the clouds

My former husband used to tell a story about his uncle from North Dakota, who rarely left that state.  On his first trip to the West Coast, the family went to the Washington Coast, and he first saw the Pacific Ocean.  His comment, then, was “…just a-workin’ all the time.”  The Ocean has to be the ultimate in “unbound”, and we have seen the Pacific from several different viewpoints.

That’s the Strait of Juan de Fuca, an arm of the Pacific Ocean on the Olympic Peninsula.

And above is the Atlantic Ocean.  Birds are unbound, too, aren’t they?

Here’s the Link to the Original Post.  And Tina’s too!