Seven more sleeps and we're off to Cabo San Lucas for our annual get-together of the Boyer kids! While all three of us together is a short period this time (only 4 days), it's always good to see each other in the flesh! We arrive the same day and within minutes as Chuck and Jane in another terminal and leave the same day as Paula and Tim.
Chuck and Jane (who have many weeks at Club Cascadas de Baja and kindly host us all) put up with our invasion. Michael and I are spending 2 weeks with them and we're joined by my sister, Paula, and her husband, Tim, for those precious 4 days. And we appreciate them making the trip.
One of the topics of conversation will be the gathering in Kentucky for the Solar Eclipse in August later this year. Yes, I suppose that we could arrange it over the internet, but in person will be so much more fun. Must remember to take our travel details with us or all is lost. Luckily we've only researched flights, not booked them.
And we need to talk about things beginning next year. Michael and I will then own three weeks on our own, so do we trek to Cabo early in the year or not? Of course our three weeks don't match up with any of Chuck's and Jane's weeks. And they're for sale, but no one has made an offer on any of them, so unless we can rent them out, we'll be there for a week in the spring and for two weeks just before Christmas.
Hmm, four or five weeks in Cabo - won't be enough time and funds to go around so that we can cruise enough.... We'll need to see what the finances turn out to be.
We bought them several years before we could use them as an investment - but now we're thinking, maybe we need to use them a bit ourselves. At least until they sell! Once sold, we'll be back sharing with Chuck and Jane (watch out, guys!)
Nine days after we return from Cabo - just long enough for the dogs to be reminded of who we are - we head out to the Western Caribbean to visit Noel Coward's former home and burial site. He loved Jamaica and I think we will too. We're experimenting with Carnival Cruise Line as they go to a port on the correct side of the island to visit Noel. Unfortunately our airline that we booked on no longer flies into Ft Lauderdale, so we have a bit of a trek to make from Miami!
Then in March we go to Nuevo Vallarta (north of Puerto Vallarta) for a coupe of weeks. Then all is quiet for nearly 4 months - can your believe it? I'm sure we're be writing about the solar eclipse in Kentucky and the cruise from Vancouver, British Columbia to Hawai'i and our stay at Aulani (Disney's resort in Hawai'i) at the end of the cruise, too. We visited Aulani when we took a cruise on Disney Cruise Line a few years ago, but this will be our first time staying there.
Looking ahead to 2018, we have a Panama Canal cruise on Carnival, again, some more time in Cabo (what are we going to do with all those weeks?), and a TransAtlantic cruise on Princess with friends from Rome through northern Italy, France, Spain, and the Azores with time in NYC, as well as a final two weeks in Cabo, again. By that time we'll be through saving up for the 2017 trips, so we should have a few more vacations in the offing....
I know it seems that we're always traveling, but what else is there to do after retirement? Sit in one spot and age? The aging happens all by itself. We've also got our Las Vegas and Orlando timeshares to find other trades for. (Sorry for ending that sentence with a preposition!) Maybe an interesting set of operas in Santa Fe, NM (I hope)?
