Dale works as a nurse 7 nights on then 7 off so tonight was the 1st night of 7 off. We had this great dinner, some national dish of Turkey that a facebook friend posted. While we ate we talked about our retirement years; this seems to be a theme these days.
Last night I started a list of places that I still want to see or visit another time, hikes I want for us to do and places that I'd like to live for short amounts of time. I told Dale about the list and we started discussing our new lives that we are about to embark on.
One of Dale's co-workers just came back from a big Alaska trip, but unlike our trip, she took a tour. They stayed in great places, took a wonderful cruise ship thru the inside passage and so forth. We discussed how we have planned to do the inside passage but on a ferry boat, putting a tent on the deck. We thought for a bit about how fabulous it would be to ride in luxury but then giving it more thought realized that it wouldn't likely happen. We'd rather take lots of not so fancy trips then just one big one for the same amount of money, and really we are hiker type of people who'd rather be seen in Patagonia or LLBean than a well known designer. (Well really Patagonia is nearly as expensive but oh so nice).
As for our fears of being together too much well we will need to stay aware of feelings. But as I told Dale, before kids we had so much fun, always going here and there; we didn't have much money but we made our trips fun. So we will buy a deck of cards, a new chess set, stock the RV and off we will go. We are really starting to count the days until we can start this new phase of life.
No comments:
Post a Comment