Summer Plans

I don't think I've taken my trailer out camping since October, and now I probably won't until school gets out.  It will have been over half a year.

I was supposed to go over Spring Break, but a rock slide made access to my planned campground much more difficult than it needed to be, so that trip will get postponed until June.  Maybe I can go there right after school gets out...

About a week after school gets out, I'm headed for Puerto Vallarta.  I like to go places I haven't been or do things I haven't done before when I travel, and I'll get a smidge of both in PV.  I overnighted there on a cruise 7 years ago, so here are my planned new events:

• take a bus to Sayulita
• take surfing lessons in Sayulita
• rent a waverunner

How fun do those sound?

A few weeks after my return I'm going on an Alaska cruise with my mother.  When we booked it I had previously been to all the ports of call, but in the interim, Victoria BC has been replaced with the thriving metropolis of Prince Rupert BC.  From what I've seen on YouTube it doesn't seem like a fair trade at all, but at least it's somewhere I haven't been before.

The last weekend of July, some of my high school friends have planned a "reunion" of sorts.  I don't have a lot of details yet, but since Styx and Starship were popular when we graduated high school, we're going to a concert of theirs at the local casino!  Our 40th high school reunion should be this year but I think it's only in the initial planning stages.

I'm already doing preliminary planning for Summer '24, when my sister and I are scheduled to spend 2 1/2 weeks in Italy.  She's given me carte blanche to do the planning, saying "I just want to pay my share and show up and have it all done for me."  I am so the right person for that job!

I wish I knew enough about how to arrange it so I could deduct at least part of the cost of that Italy trip from my taxes....