Well, here goes....do I really have anything to say that's worthwhile amid the billions and billions of bytes that is the interweb? Dunno but I guess we'll find out.
Why 'Bucket List' you might ask? Not planning on dying any time soon but increasingly I find myself thinking and planning for retirement and it's what I (we) want to do as that road unfurls before us, that is the raison d'etre for this blog.
For us, it really is stopping to smell the roses along the way. Trudy and I love to travel, not for the sake of 'been there, done that' bragging rights but to absorb the experience of a place and it's peoples. We love to people watch - we could sit in a sidewalk cafe all day and watch the world go by and we plan to do a lot of that - the 'where' is a bit blurry at this point but we have some ideas, that's for sure!
Friends have always been a big part of our lives and travelling with friends can be a ton of fun (and sometimes not so much). We hope some of our friends will join us on our adventures, however, this blog is an attempt to share them with all of our friends, even if somewhat vicariously.
So what's next? In one month Tim Swanson and I depart for 11 days in Scotland on a Whisky Tour. Amongst our planned destinations is 3 days on the Isle of Islay for Feis Ile - a week long Celtic festival centred around the 7 distilleries and 1 brewery on the island.
