We have taken a few trips over the summer. We went to Nebraska, Kentucky, Louisiana and a couple of shorts trips to Memphis. We will be taking a trip out to California this fall to visit Sarah, Cody and the kids. We kind of debated whether to fly and stay two weeks or take a little more time and drive across. Flying won out. We would love to see all the places in between, but decided we might be too much of a road hazard to drive that far.
The last ten years, we have been places and seen things that we never dreamed in a million years we would be able to see. Thanks to the fact that we have lots of kids and they have lived in a various places here and around the world. It all started when they bought up tickets to take an Alaskan cruise. After that Sondra and her family moved to Germany and we were able to visit them there a couple of times. They treated us to a cruise, where we traveled to Turkey, Greece, Croatia and Italy. In my opinion no place is as easy on the eye as home.
Florida is beautiful along the Gulf Coast, Colorado is breath taking, North and South Caroline are great places to visit, Washington state is a mild and pleasing break from the hot humid days of our Alabama area. Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee and everywhere else we have traveled has had so many wonderful things to see and do.
My fantasy is to have one of those big ole' travel buses and just get in and drive all the back roads in the USA. I think it would be fun to stop at all the little flea markets, thrift stores and even stop randomly and see what people have that they want to get rid of. John and I are so weird. We would probably drive right past the Grand Canyon on the right if there was a little store with a bunch of junk out front on the left. It is amazing what makes people tick.
One of the annoying things for me about being retired is trying to decided which things I need to do and which things just want to do. So far I have tried to talk John into buying a storage building, enclosing the carport and making a family room and building a deck along the back of the house. So far the answer has been no, no and no. Now I know that those are things that I want to do.
Some of my need too's are finishing the bathroom, painting the ceilings, new carpet and flooring. You can imagine how John feels. Yes, he probably wishes that I would go back to work. And as you can probably tell by my post that there is a lot of stuff going on in my head that is off the wall and has no sense of connectivity ( if that is a word). I guess as time goes on I will level out, won't feel so frantic to get things done, sleep til 10:00 and wear my PJ's all day. Wait a minute, I think its starting, It's 12:34 and I'm still sitting here in my PJ's
