First off, I won't ever go on vacation again now that I'm retired, I just go on trips. Why you ask? Well, when you're working, you go on 'vacation' from work, right? So if you're retired and already not working, what's a vacation from that?
Second, like bogus bill, we live in a place many people come to visit. We live in a small valley SW of Denver in the front range at 6,100ft. Our valley has tons of deer, an 80 head elk herd, red fox, occasional black bear, rare mountain lion, lots of coyote, as well as the other more common animals. They are mostly very tame as our 11,000 acre valley is a game sanctuary with no hunting allowed (yes, we have Park Rangers). In 5 minutes I can be in the woods at 8,500ft or in Downtown Denver in 45.
That settled, my wife and I love to travel and this year especially we've been fortunate because of the great deals on trips. So, since the first of the year we've gone on or have scheduled and paid for:
* 2 weeks in Costa Rica last Feb.
* 2 weeks trip including Lake Tahoe, CA, through Death Valley to 'Vegas, and then head back to Denver via all the National Parks; i.e. Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Capitol Reef, plus a stop at Green River, UT last Apr.
* 1 week Alaskan inner passage cruise from Seattle with stops at Skagway, Juneau, Tracy Arm, Ketchikan, and Victoria in Vancover last Jun.
* 2 1/2 week river cruise from Budapest, up the Danube, Mine, and Rhine rivers to Amsterdam scheduled for Aug.
* 2 1/2 week river cruise from Shanghai, up the Yangtze river to Chongqing, the to Xian for the Terracotta Soldiers, then to Beijing for the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and the other sights scheduled for Oct.
* 1 week stay in Cancun scheduled for after Christmas and the last week of the year.
I told you we like to travel!!!!!