Counting Down

This morning my computer's countdown clock says I have 2 months, 18 days, 6 hours, and a swiftly-decreasing number of minutes and seconds before my retirement day. I've spent much of the morning doing some packing in my office while keeping an eye out for my international driver's license, which I can't seem to find. Other than the license, everything is proceeding smoothly. We finally bought the GPS, a Garmin Nuvi 370, which comes complete with European and North American maps. We haven't tried to navigate ourselves yet, but Concetta says the little device is pretty easy and intuitive to use.

We finally have all the various passes that I had determined we needed. We have the Heritage Pass which supposedly gets you into 800 different castles, museums and historic houses throughout the UK. We have the pass that will allow us to ride the tube in London as well as the Red double-decker buses. We also have a pass that promises to gain us entrance to attractions in London not accessible with the Heritage pass.

Now, I'm researching the idea of joining "Globalbagtag.com," a company that issues metal tags for your bag that, if your bag goes astray, allows airline personnel to go to Global's web site and pull up your itinerary so they can see where you're supposed to be at any given time. Pretty neat if it works.

Obviously, with only a little less than three months to go before we leave, it's time to get serious and start checking off must-do items from the list. I think we're pretty far along, but seldom does a day go by when I don't think of something I've forgotten. Stay tunned.