Work on the house. It will be paid off in a little over a year. We need all new big windows. 9 of them are floor to ceiling (passive solar house). Finish the guest room which includes removing one outside door and replacing it with a window. The second outside door in the guest room needs replaced. I’d hire out new carpet for the living room main bedroom and guest room.
Oh. And I need to cut in a new outside door from our main bedroom to the outside. Build a deck out there too. It would be a very busy year. :sigh: but it would be a vacation for me.
I really like cooking, but I think I would hate to do it professionally. So a year out to learn how to bake the perfect souffle would be a pretty good compromise.
I would do what I did between high school & college. I would drift up & down the coast getting a job when I needed or when I felt like it.
Like last time, one year is not enough time, I might get by with only three years instead of the four that I took last time. The east coast instead of the west coast, would be a major difference though.
If I could not stand the folks in the east, I would just head out west to the other coast again. Although, for the most part, the folks that I have met that are from the east coast are good folks.
I like the idea of hosting at campgrounds. My uncle and aunt did this for over a year, & they loved it. It gave them just enough structure to their lives, without constraining them, to be pleasent. They saw at least 15 different areas of the PNW & some of the SW states.
Lots of books need reading, as well as a lot of fish need catching. Back country roads need explored, as do small towns and their cafe’s, book stores, and libraries. Sunrises, soaring birds, and storms, need watched. Paths, beaches, and trails need walked.
All of these moments need shared with the love of my life.
You-all have me dreaming again. My wanderlust is coming back! I need to do some plannning now, as my lady is not as spontainious as she once was. Old age, she tells me.
I’ve got a few videogame ideas that I’ve been trying to get off the ground, but the day job (a very niche market on the edge of the games world) keeps getting in the way. Hell, I’ve semi-joked to friends that I wouldn’t mind being made redundant so I can devote some time to developing them.
I’m a type 1 diabetic, so the whole backpacking thing is out.