A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking. ~ Earl Wilson

A Happy Little Vacation

So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been off the map and on vacation. This was the second half of my 60th birthday celebration. The East Coast celebration, it was as an opportunity to catch up with as many family and friends as a I could on the East Coast. So I had lunch with my parents, dinner with my sister’s family, visited my aunt, spent some time in Brooklyn with my brother’s family and caught up with a couple of friends along the way. It was a bit of a whirlwind trip and so I also included three days back where my family used to vacation when I was younger up on Cape Cod. The drawing above came courtesy of my five year-old niece. I love the drawing, the detail is awesome, my little beard, my first initial and of course, my psycho bunny hat.

My sister’s family took me out for a birthday dinner and we had a great time. It was a hibachi place so of course mentioning my birthday led to this. Including beams of light erupting from my head.

Visiting Brooklyn of course means two things I love, my brother’s family and real New York pizza. So I spent two days, climbing up and down slides, getting ice cream, getting asked 500 questions and of course getting beat on by my niece and nephews, it was glorious. And of course, out of six possible meals, five of them looked liked this.

This was an incredibly laid back vacation, good people and good food. My three days on Cape Cod consisted of swimming in the ocean, swimming in the pool, laying in the sun, staring at the ocean and eating a lot of bacon wrapped scallops. This morning I wrapped up the eating frenzy with some homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast.

This was also a very cerebral vacation. A lot of hours on the road and laying in the sun with time to think. My life is about to change in a hundred ways and I’m making some pretty big relationship related decisions. I talked about a lot of this in my last several posts. And now that I’m back, it’s about 140 days to retirement and leaving California. So full speed ahead on getting all of that wrapped up and organized, it will go by fast. So waive the starting flag, here we go.

Finally tonight, whenever I return to SFO I pass this art piece and I absolutely love it. It reminds me of the horses with the White Walkers in Game of Thrones.

Have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane