Our 20^th wedding anniversary is coming up in September and I had always thought we would go back to Lake Tahoe where we were first married to celebrate. We’ve been talking for several months about taking a road trip, stopping along the way wherever the notion struck us. It was to be a leisurely journey culminating in a ceremony to renew our vows. I was even considering inviting our family to fly in and join us on the day. It was to be the big wedding adventure we never got to have originally. It seemed like a great way to celebrate the past twenty years, then, we sat down to actually plan it and reality struck.

First, we cannot just get in the car and drive south hoping to find a place to stay. Randomly wandering doesn’t work, we need to know that we have a bed at the end of every day. Secondly, we would need to drive for four or five hours every day to get to Tahoe in a reasonable timeframe. Driving for even a couple of hours wears me out and knowing that I would be the only driver on this trip is exhausting before we even get into the car. Road trips are just not going to work in our new PD lifestyle.

So, we took a different look at what we really like to do now. We like the sun, we like the beach, we love Hawaii. Instead of driving to Tahoe, we are flying to Kauai. We’ll have a beachside room with all of the beauty the islands offer. The plan for our first day there will be relaxing on the beach to allow us both to recover from the flight. We’ll have a wonderful, stress free celebration of our twenty years together and then fly home renewed and ready for twenty more.