"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look upon that closed door so long and so regretfully that we often do not see the door which has opened before us"

I have decided not to be that person. As most of you know, I was laid off from my company after 11 years. Instead of dwelling on it, I took the opportunity to take this time off (with a nice severence package) and travel for a bit before going back to work.

My plan is (and we all know plans never quite work out the way we think!) to vsit some places in South America that I have always wanted to see:

PERU - Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world; 4 day hike up the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu; the Amazon Rainforest

ECUADOR - The Galapagos Islands - enough said

BONAIRE - the best scuba diving in the Caribbean

TRINIDAD & TABAGO - Carnival!

So, this morning, I am catching my plane to Lima, Peru. Stay tuned....