The time has finally come!
After three absolutely horrible years—personally, professionally, and for my family as a whole—we are finally off on vacation, beginning tomorrow.
We will be off to Baltimore, Maryland, and then, Senoia/Peachtree City, Georgia, and we will be away for about a week.
We are going to do all of this by car, and with gas prices falling, it will still cost us a pretty penny at the pump, but not what I thought it would … I thought we would be looking at $6 a gallon, for sure, but I now know that in some places, it will be below $4 a gallon.
We set aside separate money for that, and while the prices are down, I do expect that most of that money, if not all of it, will be used to fill my car’s gas tank as we traverse up and down the I-95 corridor.
It should be a fun week, a week that my family and I need, a couple of days just to soak in the sun—and it is going to be brutally hot all up and down the Eastern Seaboard—and just take it easy for a few days.
We won’t be even near the beach during our trip, and like the picture of Annette Funicello that accompanies this Rant, we will be doing whatever swimming we will do in a shark-less pool.
We were originally supposed to go on a cruise, but with that being scuttled several times by the cruise Ines due to the pandemic—I am sure President Biden will be fine—we simply decided that now is not the right time to go on such a trip, and we decided on a car trip this time around.
And yes, we have our masks, our COVID-19 test kits, and we will use them if and when they are applicable, if necessary, more the masks than the test kits, I am sure.
But again, we have been in New York’s cocoon for the past three years, and now we are going to be venturing outside of that cocoon, so it is better to be safe than sorry, I guess.
And like the Arby’s commercial that says “We have the meats,” my family and I can say “We have the shots,” so we should be OK.
As you know, I had my car checked out recently, and it is in really good shape now that I spent so much money to bring it up to snuff …
As am I, based on my recent medical checkups, and my family also passed whatever checkups they had, too.
So when you put everything together, we are ready to go!
There are just some loose ends to be tied up today, and by tomorrow morning at this time, we will be on the road to Baltimore.
I was told by someone I know that the heat might force the Sunday Yankees-Orioles contest to have its game time switched from the afternoon to the evening, so we will have to watch for that, but whatever the case, we will be there, so look for us on TV.
We don’t have to worry about that once we get to Georgia and go to WWE Smackdown on Friday. Look for us there on TV, too.
In between the two sporting events, we will do a lot of sightseeing, and a lot of hydrating, too.
Honestly, during the lowest point of the past three years, I never thought that this day would ever come.
And when we canceled our cruise, it was very depressing, to say the least.
But here we are, poised to finally get away—I really can’t believe the day is just about here!
As I look at the calendar, I will be taking off from writing this weekday column until Monday, August 1, or I might just push it to Tuesday; August 2.
I doubt that there will be any surprise pop-up Rants during the vacation, but I have learned to never say never.
But I don’t think I will return to my perch here until early August, but come here to the blog site and look for me on Facebook just to make sure.
The time has come, and we are ready to go!
Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again in August.
And as that true showman Jackie Gleason used to say—
“AND AWAY WE GO!”
After three absolutely horrible years—personally, professionally, and for my family as a whole—we are finally off on vacation, beginning tomorrow.
We will be off to Baltimore, Maryland, and then, Senoia/Peachtree City, Georgia, and we will be away for about a week.
We are going to do all of this by car, and with gas prices falling, it will still cost us a pretty penny at the pump, but not what I thought it would … I thought we would be looking at $6 a gallon, for sure, but I now know that in some places, it will be below $4 a gallon.
We set aside separate money for that, and while the prices are down, I do expect that most of that money, if not all of it, will be used to fill my car’s gas tank as we traverse up and down the I-95 corridor.
It should be a fun week, a week that my family and I need, a couple of days just to soak in the sun—and it is going to be brutally hot all up and down the Eastern Seaboard—and just take it easy for a few days.
We won’t be even near the beach during our trip, and like the picture of Annette Funicello that accompanies this Rant, we will be doing whatever swimming we will do in a shark-less pool.
We were originally supposed to go on a cruise, but with that being scuttled several times by the cruise Ines due to the pandemic—I am sure President Biden will be fine—we simply decided that now is not the right time to go on such a trip, and we decided on a car trip this time around.
And yes, we have our masks, our COVID-19 test kits, and we will use them if and when they are applicable, if necessary, more the masks than the test kits, I am sure.
But again, we have been in New York’s cocoon for the past three years, and now we are going to be venturing outside of that cocoon, so it is better to be safe than sorry, I guess.
And like the Arby’s commercial that says “We have the meats,” my family and I can say “We have the shots,” so we should be OK.
As you know, I had my car checked out recently, and it is in really good shape now that I spent so much money to bring it up to snuff …
As am I, based on my recent medical checkups, and my family also passed whatever checkups they had, too.
So when you put everything together, we are ready to go!
There are just some loose ends to be tied up today, and by tomorrow morning at this time, we will be on the road to Baltimore.
I was told by someone I know that the heat might force the Sunday Yankees-Orioles contest to have its game time switched from the afternoon to the evening, so we will have to watch for that, but whatever the case, we will be there, so look for us on TV.
We don’t have to worry about that once we get to Georgia and go to WWE Smackdown on Friday. Look for us there on TV, too.
In between the two sporting events, we will do a lot of sightseeing, and a lot of hydrating, too.
Honestly, during the lowest point of the past three years, I never thought that this day would ever come.
And when we canceled our cruise, it was very depressing, to say the least.
But here we are, poised to finally get away—I really can’t believe the day is just about here!
As I look at the calendar, I will be taking off from writing this weekday column until Monday, August 1, or I might just push it to Tuesday; August 2.
I doubt that there will be any surprise pop-up Rants during the vacation, but I have learned to never say never.
But I don’t think I will return to my perch here until early August, but come here to the blog site and look for me on Facebook just to make sure.
The time has come, and we are ready to go!
Have a great weekend, and I will speak to you again in August.
And as that true showman Jackie Gleason used to say—
“AND AWAY WE GO!”
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