After a year of planning we're off to points south with Maggie tomorrow morning. The Concord Monitor's Charlotte Thibault did this terrific artwork to illustrate the soup-to-nuts piece I did on putting the trip together. Read it at http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/229887/on-the-road-with-maggie.
As much as we will miss everyone (and that will be a LOT!), we're looking at the next three months as a sort of "faux retirement." We'll have three months of leisure before returning home to our regular work routines for the rest of the year. Will we survive without doing bodily harm to each other?? Time will tell.
I'll still be writing for the Monitor a couple of times each month and will also be trying out the bloggin world right here. We're hoping for daily entries and photos...perhaps even along the three day drive down to the Florida Keys.
As of 1PM today, our 2011 KIA Sorento is packed, Maggie's seatbelt/harness contraption is installed and tested, we have 5 audiobooks downloaded to Bud's iTouch (amazingly, they'll play through our car speakers) and we're set to take off early tomorrow morning.
