onward and upward

i totally forgot that yesterday was the first anniversary of my leaving the national park service --- i semi-pretended that i would keep working, but . . . . maybe i'm beginning to have a clue about what retirement is all about --- my situation is one that a lot of people my age would really envy and, as always in my life, i haven't looked back

fittingly, the stupid republican government shut-down last fall somewhat diminished my four-corners jaunt that commenced my retirement by closing all the national parks ---

a year later, it's off to cuba, or "cuber" as jfk used to say --- akin to the way jimmy and others say "nucular" --- the republicans probably can't mess that up