Bifil that in that seson on a day,
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay,
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To Caunterbury with ful devout corage
Ever since I had read these lines from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales as an undergraduate student, a quiet resolve grew in me: I, too, would make my pilgrimage to Canterbury someday. Years later, that long-held aspiration shaped our journey.