TRAVEL — SEPTEMBER 27 WRITING PROMPT
Wanderlust
One of my retirement plans involves seeing more of the world
I used to say that I had seen more of the world outside the US than in it, but my husband, who was born outside its borders, is working to remedy that! We both retired early a couple of years ago. Now, we’re traveling more — the kids are grown, our time is our own, and we can finally indulge our wanderlust.
In the past few years (including a few before retirement, but mostly after becoming “empty nesters”), we’ve visited Hawaii, Florida, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. We have plans to visit New England in a few weeks and take our first trip to the Florida Keys — hurricane season permitting — soon. In the past several years, we have also traveled to Turkey, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the Canary Islands, and Portugal. All of our trips are “memorable” for different reasons.
I remember, though, one of my favorite TV shows from childhood, “Night Gallery,” had an episode called “Hell’s Bells.” In it, a hard-riding motorcyclist played by Sonny Bono dies. He’s a little confused, though, because his afterlife involves sitting around a comfy living room watching two couples share their home movies from trips they’ve taken. He…
