{"id":3157,"date":"2018-08-09T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kneedeepinit.com\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2019-09-01T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T13:55:30","slug":"rock-to-rockies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kneedeepinit.com\/rock-to-rockies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Rock to the Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well we left our little rock to travel to the big rocks of the Rocky Mountains. It was actually our first time leaving Vieques and that felt a little strange, but we knew we were coming back – we just signed a one-year lease and are ready to settle in even more when we return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But travel has never really been my thing. In my high tech career I was never the classic road warrior. I always told my bosses that I would travel where the need was, domestic or overseas, but I wouldn’t be the first one volunteering. I viewed air travel as a necessary evil. Well, not evil, but a necessary drudgery let’s say. And that kept me off a lot of flights to China that I could have been on – there were a few people at work who wanted to see the world that way. To each his own, I say. But I did fly to Japan, to California (a lot), to New York, Chicago, Florida. I was in Japan so long I forgot I had a bunch of clothes in the hotel laundry and flew home. My coworker from back then (thanks Marty!) had to bring them back to me at the end of his trip! So no, I’ve never been a great traveler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it was the same in our personal lives when we went to Florida (a lot), California, Hawaii, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, Germany. We even went to another planet once, a place they call New York City. That was eye opening and surprisingly fun, so thanks to the folks in the Big Apple back then for not chewing us up and spitting us out! Deb has a similar attitude about travel – we always say we don’t like to go<\/em> places but we do really like to be<\/em> places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how did we end up tooling around the Caribbean in our early retirement? That’s a long story that starts here<\/a>, but let it suffice to say we’re happier when we are on our own little island enjoying it to the max, rather than always looking for the next destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n