Actually.. When we return home from a trip , I pack for the next one. I have travel clothes hanging in a closet in the guest bedroom and cosmetics and personal hygiene products that I keep in the suitcase. I know it seems like we travel all the time..but we really only do about three trips a year...our travel has changed a bit...we used to do more beach trips than we do now. We went to Jamaica and St. Martin every year... But our favorite Jamaican resort closed and our favorite SXM resort blew away. We have been to Jamaica 23 times and SXM 15 times.

If you retire at 65..my husband retired last year...you figure you only have 10 years you can probably travel extensively...provided your health is good. So we started traveling in our 40's...in 1997.... We went to Hawaii for our 25th anniversary. That's what started it all. In 1998 we went to Jamaica. In 1999 we went to Tahiti, Dominican Republic, and St. Martin.

In 2012, we went on our first Disney cruise with our sons family. We have now been on 2 Disney cruises, 2 Norwegian cruises, a princess med cruise, a royal Caribbean cruise and a tauck European cruise....and we have three more cruises booked. Cruises are a great way to see a lot...your hotel travels with you.

Anyway...we are blessed with good health and the finances to be able to travel as much as we do....and even though we keep checking off the boxes of our bucket list...it keeps growing. We may never get to see all the places we want...but we will have fun trying!