First, thank you for visiting my blog. I hope that you will stick around, write comments, and throw out your own amazing ideas. The more participation I get from readers, the more fun this experience will be for everyone.
There are two key ingredients I used to bake this crazy idea for a blog.
First.
I love to travel. Maybe it’s because I spent my elementary years growing up in Singapore. Maybe it’s because I spent many of my later childhood summers riding across America in a Class C Motor-home. Maybe it was the life changing experience of a missions trip to Mexico as a young middle school student, or the three years I spent getting to know the locals in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Second.
My parents have been married forever…literally. My father gave me a great example to follow. Even though there were the normal ups and downs in their marital journey, I knew with utter certainty they would last forever. To this day, eons into their marriage, he still surprises her regularly with trips and adventures.
And then I met my own Cinderella, which is just a figure of speech, obviously. She wasn’t the step-daughter of a crazy woman and she certainly doesn’t clean :-). She was gorgeous, grew up on a tropical island, and absolutely loved to travel.
As our romance developed I took her sightseeing in New York City and snowboarding in Colorado, but then we married, had kids, and the fairy tale withered. Until the summer of 2014 we hadn’t taken a vacation for 5 years.
Our drought is about to change, as I commit to surprise her with an adventure every year from now on.
Follow me on this journey and learn from my discoveries and mistakes.
Take some initiative, fly her away.