I’m about to find out. I leave tomorrow for a one week cruise in Mexico, I’m looking forward to it … should be fun. The kids are staying home … my wife and I are going with friends from our college days. The laptop is staying at home too, which will make this first time in about six years I have been away from my computer for longer than 48 hours! That actually sounds great. Just me, the most beautiful woman in the world and one very long book.

The thing is, the past two weeks have been so stressful preparing for the trip that I wonder if the trip will only SEEM relaxing by comparison. And then the week after a vacation is always crazy with “catch up and patch up” duties. Another reason to seek the 4-Hour Work Week and the attendant “mini-retirements”. Just the general slowing down of life instead of revving the engine way too high just so I can slam on the brakes for a second or two.