Road Trip '09: Living the dreams

This one is for my kids.

Do I regret driving 6000 miles and spending every last nickel in my checking account and using a month vacation and maxing out those credit cards? Heck no I don't and I never will. Today, I decided that life was good and that I am happy. For so long I've been focused on retiring someday. But the 401k went down the drain? Now what? Well, whats wrong with working? I've worked since I was 12 years old working for my riding lessons in Michigan. When I was 13 or 14 I started to babysit so that I could buy a saddle (and still working for those riding lessons). At 15 I was driving the bosses car downtown to the county court house to drop off the Summons and Complaint forms and the Affidavit and Writ of Garnishments that I would type up in his office. When we moved to El Paso I got a job at McDonalds, then I started welding, then worked for the YWCA, Weinershnitel, and then settled in for three years or so at McKesson Drug Company and paid my way through college. I quit that job after not getting my vacation time to go to Mexico City so when I came back I started working for H and R block as a secretary answering tax questions and then for Manpower. When I graduated from college with a degree in Business Administration I went and worked for the Federal Aviation Administration. What was I thinking? Well that didn't work out after a year or so so it was back to Manpower then to work for J B Hunt in his bank in Fayetteville, AR, the bank got sold so then I was working for Worthen Corporation. I got fed up and quit that too after a while and decided to go to nursing school and work in customer service at a hospital. I finally graduationed in 1996 and became a
Registered Nurse.

Today I decided it was okay to work until I can't anymore. So my husband left and took his retirement. That's okay, I have my life back. And our 29 day long trip was quite nice.