Few people have a choice as to when and where and how they will die. The old man had a full life, even with the traumas. His body told him it was his time. So he began a journey to the end, planning to in his own way, where and how he chose. It was not in him to be part of a nursing home scene, so he looked for his family homestead of years way gone by. It had been sixty plus years in the making, this journey.