By curly-xu on Skatehive
Hi everyone 🤍🤗 Today I want to share the beginning of a journey that turned out to be much more than just a trip. Lately, we kept feeling drawn to Portugal — not just as another destination, but as a place we somehow needed to be. It wasn’t about ticking off a new country, it was something deeper. After everything we’ve been through, after losing our hometown Mariupol, we made a quiet promise to ourselves — to keep living, to keep feeling, and to keep searching. Searching for a place where something inside us could feel calm again. Where we might feel at home. This trip was planned for February 10th. We wanted it to be special — to spend Valentine’s Day by the ocean 🌊 and celebrate my husband’s birthday not just as a date, but as a real, meaningful moment. But as it often happens, things didn’t go as planned. Because of a storm warning, our plane had to make an emergency landing in Spain. In that moment, everything felt uncertain — a mix of stress, confusion, and exhaustion. Spain w