Poor Me

[Veronica]

Thom's company has been sold and he's going to be out of a job. We've been planning for this since the first round of layoffs in 2001 - so financially we're fine.

We think (we find out today) that he will be getting a pretty decent severance package plus some bonus money to stay through the transistion period. We're going to blow that on travel. We figure we're unlikely to ever get an extended period of time like this again before retirement.

The problem is - there are so many cool places to go! We've already decided we're doing a bike tour of Sao Miguel - the largest island in the Azores. We have my 20th reunion to go to in Maine.

But what to do with the rest of the time?

Mountain Bike Alaska
Road Trip Pacific Northwest - with the bikes of course
Bop around in Europe for a couple of weeks
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia

These are all things we've tossed back and forth. Unfortunately there's not enough time to do them all.

So what would you do?

V

PS I reserve the right to NOT take your advice.