Trip of a lifetime!

Where is the one place you've ALWAYS wanted to visit?  When I was younger I always said it was Ireland (I suspect because of the Irish Spring commercials) then it changed to Australia and then Tuscany....but then I realized that there was so much of my own country that I haven't seen and started to think about where I would want to go if money were no object.  I would love to go somewhere in the New England states in the spring to see everything in bloom, the old marina towns and historical places, I would LOVE to go to Washington state and see the lagoon where the killer whales come and rub their belly's, like in Free Willie, I would love to go see the Redwood Forest in California, would love to get to Hawaii someday but my all-time dream trip is to go west to Arizona and New Mexico, to see the old west towns that were abandoned, to see the Native American Indians that still live and work out there and buy some of their handmade items like turquoise jewelry, pottery or Navajo rugs (even though my niece said they aren't very friendly to white people).  As a photographer I have always wanted to see the amazing canyons in Arizona that the wind carved through the rock and the pueblo style homes and blooming cactuses.  So our 30th wedding anniversary trip was going to be, going out west to Arizona and New Mexico.  Funny how the 30 year anniversary got here before the money for the trip did.

So, we are modifying and still planning an awesome, trip of a lifetime!  We are going to Colorado!  Staying with family to cut down on lodging and taking day trips to Breckenridge, Beaver Creek and Vail.  Hoping to catch something at Red Rock but at least going out there to say we have seen it.  I was in Colorado for a month when I was 16 and my brother took me to this Mexican restaurant that had a cliff diver INSIDE the restaurant, I hope to go back there (if it is still there, been a minute) and also want to show hubby the giant cross that is lit-up in the mountains as a memorial to some hikers that didn't make it out.  Maybe we can have a picnic up in the mountains near a stream and just enjoy nature like we don't get to see in Florida.  

It's not exactly the dream trip I have longed for but it is in the United States, in the west, in the summer, in the mountains, in a historical place, with lots to do and see and I get to take it with my very best friend, my confidant, my lover, the guy that always makes me laugh, the only person I trust implicitly with my life and the guy I've loved the most for over 30 years....that right there makes it the TRIP OF A LIFETIME!!

Musings of a modern day mamaw.