Monday Meanderings - 12.28.2015

Don't look now, but we have just about used up 2015. Hard to believe. I'll join everyone else and make this post a retrospective (it's a good thing I kept notes - the passing year hasn't improved my memory).

For someone who doggedly insists on sleeping in my own bed (and recliner), I sure spent a lot of time on the road in 2015. Barb and I added to our collection of Pacific Coast Highway miles - this time northern California. We've driven more than half of California One - from Point Arena to Pismo Beach. Muir Woods, Golden Gate Bridge and Bodega Bay were on that route. And this year we tried out the Atlantic Coast Highway - A1A in Florida.

But that was just the beginning; we saw a dolphin in the Belize River and an alligator in the Everglades. We waded in the Caribbean surf in the Bahamas and explored Mayan ruins in the jungles of Quintana Roo. We saw Mountain-top vistas on St. Thomas, ship wrecks in the bays of Roatan and old fishing villages in Saint Maarten. And we saw water in Possum Kingdom.

On the home front, we survived the Memorial Day storm - though most of the trees in the backyard and the power lines did not (along with a lot of the pecan tree in the front). Still trying to figure out what to do with the huge uprooted stump out back.

We demonstrated our age health-wise. I had surgery on a bad shoulder, Barb had cataract surgery. The good news is that between us we shed about 150 pounds of weight, though neither of us is going to step on a scale at this very moment.

I passed the 2,400 hour mark of volunteer hours at Learning Ally; Barb received an 8 year anniversary card from Meals on Wheels. That's about 6,400 miles driven delivering meals.

And I marked 8 years of blogging - 1,044 posts.

So adieu, 2015. All-in-all not a bad year. And hello 2016 - we are looking forward to what you have in store for us.

Happy New Year.