It’s hard for me to keep up with all of the promises I made myself when I early retired from MegaCorp a few years ago. Just shy of fifty years old, I wanted to make sure if I wasn’t working at the office every day, I wouldn’t just be piddling my time away at home and driving my wife crazy. One of the first things … Continue reading Fifty States Quest – The Country Is Waiting
This Labor Day weekend, we are taking an unusual road trip. We are planning to drive more than a half day out to Omaha, Nebraska, simply because it is one of the remaining three states I need to have reached all fifty. I wrote about my overall quest a few months ago in my “Visit All Fifty States Quest”.
No one in our family would put Omaha on the top of list of exciting vacation destinations (sorry, folks from Nebraska). But, like a trip we took to North Dakota a few years ago, I’m sure this trip will have lot of unexpected fun and memorable learning about a state we know very little about. Continue reading “One More State Visit – Closing In On Fifty”
In my mind, travel is one of life’s absolutely top luxuries and one of the things I am most looking forward to flexing on in early retirement. I love getting off a plane and immersing ourselves in a new city or destination. I even love the parts of travel that other people hate – planning, packing & airports. Most of all I love the education … Continue reading Visit All Fifty States Quest
