For someone who has been in this program since the beginning, I have to admit I am still in a haze as to the specific procedures and names to call such. I feel a bit like a hiker who has made it to the crest of a coastal mountain range and is looking down on the fog cover the ocean.
You struggled to get up the backside of the mountains so that you could get to the ocean, but now you can't see it. You know it's under there and that you still have to make your way down the frontside of the mountains to get to it, which will not be a easy feat itself, before you get to the ocean where you will board a ship on yet another journey.
That's where I stand now. I am not so much The Wander above the Sea of Fog as I'm no German Romantic, but that image does come to mind too.
