September 2024: This is how Retirement works for us, all over Morning Coffee!
That's Half Dome out there...it was windy too! Janet and I do a lot of our travel planning first thing in the morning while having our coffees. Late in 2022, Janet was trolling around the United Airlines site and blurted out, "hey, flights to London have really come down...you want to go to London in March?" London is neck and neck in my rating with Paris and Munich, so I said, "Sure!" and over the next cup, we had the flight, an AirBnB right by Covent Garden and Chinatown and close to five different Tube stations...all booked that morning! Next winter (2023), again, over morning coffee, Janet asks, "do you want to go to DC this coming January?" I love all the Smithsonians and spending all day in a museum in the dead of winter was a no-brainer..."Absolutely!" This summer (2024), Janet signed up for a "Knitting Retreat" in Cambria, and when she asked if I wanted to go, I said yes. I don't knit, but the riding between Cambria a