Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Key West Trip Report - November 24 - December 1, 2014

I always want to return to Key West but it's so inconvenient for me living on the Pacific Wet Coast, and not to mention expensive!  I've had "Keys Disease" since my first visit when I was twenty-one.  It then took me till I was forty-five to return next though it wasn't for lack of trying.  Key West often crosses my mind and makes me long to return to the first place that captured my heart.  I have never forgotten the first sunset I saw there.  Sigh...

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

50th Birthday - Eastern Caribbean Cruise Trip Report - November. 16 - 23, 2014

Is your 50th Birthday a big deal?  I suppose it should be, but it really wasn't for me.  I think birthdays stopped being important to me when I reached 21.  I remember my dad told me then that it seems like you wait your whole life till you turn 21 and then after that the years FLY by, faster and faster.  Very true.  The thought of being 50 makes me feel OLD!  Not in a bad way, but old nonetheless...I very much believe that "youth is beauty" and "youth is wasted on the young".  It certainly was, in my case.