November 29, 2011

• The Plan

  As sad as it may seem, I’ve never been the type of person who sets goals for myself. But at the beginning of 2010 I made a decade resolution to go to three places by the end of the decade: 1. The Kentucky Derby 2. Mardi Gras 3. Times Square on New Year’s Eve. Much to my surprise, I managed to actually already accomplish one of those goals when I was in Times Square last New Year’s Eve. At the start of this year, two of my goals were to learn how to swim and to remodel my kitchen. Well, I recently learned how to float and kinda swim and have remodeled my front room, hallway and bedroom. While it was not my kitchen it was still a pretty big accomplishment.

  So now I’ve been thinking about the future should I be so lucky to live long enough. See, in about 5-6 years I should have my house paid off if I continue to keep paying extra on my mortgage each month. This means I will have no mortgage at a young age; my late 30s/early 40s. Of course, this frees up tons of money each month. And since I have been bit by the travel bug and seem to be getting more and more comfortable flying, I’ve decided that after I pay my house off, I want to start traveling the world.

  I’ve always loved traveling. I would go as far as to say that it is even a bit of a passion of mine. Yet, I have only been out of the country once and that was to go to Puetro Vallarta in Mexico in 1999. Of course this means there is still tons of the world to see. I’ve long said that I want to go to every country in the world. Except of course the ones that behead Americans. Or execute gays. I guess that means I can pretty much cross the entire middle east off my list. And much of Africa as well. Leaving me with the rest of the continents which in spite of what dumbass Justin Bieber thinks, does not include the north pole (last week on Letterman when asked to name the seven continents, he struggled to come up with all seven, eventually saying the north pole).

  Now I would like to ease into this whole thing so the first place I will visit after I pay off the house is London. I would not have to learn another language and of all the world’s countries, England is probably the most like America and in the grand scheme of things, is not an extremely long flight. Plus my poor looking teeth would actually look great compared to the British.

  So now I’ve got more goals and or plans. The key to these though are only paying off my house but also having the money for such expenses and also most importantly, being alive and healthy enough to take these trips. Oh, and ideally hopefully finding somebody to travel the world with but that is not as essential as actually being alive to be able to travel.

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