Brian Rudd wrote the following in the course of an 11-week, 4,500-mile motorhome journey through France in 2011. With Patricia, these were the days they had dreamed of: 

These are the days we have dreamed of.  Through all of the winters, summers and years.

All home life the laughter and tears. Joys of our children and their children too.

Sadness about loved ones, who's time it was due. Family we love deeply, living their lives.

So good to hear from home. Life still goes on there, far, far away.

Seems even further sometimes. The days will roll by and we will return.

And when the winter draws in. We can sit and review, the things that we did.

The people, the places a traveller sees. Yes, these are the days we have dreamed of.