Well, since the decision was made about home ownership and future investments, I've been thinking a lot about what I should do with Grandma's money. I wanted to make sure it wasn't just... spent, that it had a lasting effect. At first I thought about making this land into an energy farm; setting up solar panels and wind turbines to harvest natural electricity and sell it back to the grid. This would be an extremely costly and long-term investment (not one that I would see the benefits of), and it would be dependent of the hope that whoever next inherited the property would value ecology as much as I do. I would hate to see the land divided up and the solar panels and wind turbines dismantled... that would be a bummer!
My Dad always said, "It's better to invest in yourself." So I thought, what would I want? Yes, I would love to save the planet, but I'm not really sure I have the right place for it. What I love, what I have always wanted to do, is travel... Travel all over, travel far away, see new things and see familiar things. People can be so different and so much the same at the same time!
John and I have gotten pretty good at traveling together. We practice often enough, going to Eastern Washington and then New Jersey and then Montreal and then the Eastern Caribbean...We are pretty good at land, sea and air! We have been traveling in wider and wider circles...So now where shall we go? So now we are off to Hong Kong! My friend, Irene, and her husband have lived there for five plus years. I can't wait to see them and their two kids! The more I think about it, the more excited I get!!
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