As you might guess from my writing in this blog, I enjoy travel. Right now, I have 4 planned trips in front of me:
- A long weekend in Chicago with RQS and my Texas friends.
- A Bermuda cruise with RQS.
- A solo cruise to the Bahamas and back.
- A Norwegian Fjord cruise with RQS in 2024.
Even with these trips planned, I am still trying to figure out ways to travel even more. For example, I'd like to spend a weekend in Boston with RQS, and see things we couldn't see in our short stop there on last year's cruise. I could always go back to DC with RQS, as she has relatives in the region that we both enjoy seeing. And then, Philadelphia comes to mind, as I have not had the time to explore the city in my two trips there.
Unfortunately, travel costs money, and we have to answer a simple question: Where will all this money for travel come from?
The other day, I was chatting with my brother and the subject of my uncle's finances. (No, I will not go into them here.) But both of us had similar thoughts - we both want my uncle to enjoy the rest of his life as much as possible, and would rather that he spend it on him and my aunt, than for him to leave us a lot of money. Yet, if we were lucky enough to inherit a few dollars, I would spend some of it on a bucket list trip with RQS. My brother said that this was an excellent idea.
What will happen in the future depends on how my finances work themselves out. If my investments do well, I will spend some of the proceeds on travel. If not, I will dream about travel. Either way, travel will be on my mind. Hopefully, much of that travel will be as Marian, and not as Mario.
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