About
Nha Trang beech
My wife and I are in or early 50′s. a little too young to retire, but eager to start enjoying life. We are middle class Canadians and both were employed. Myself by the municipal government, and my wife by our provincial health care system. We have left our jobs as of Nov 12 2009. Our final destination is a city called Nha Trang in Vietnam. There we hope to grow new roots, and hopefully be able to travel back and forth in the future.
Owee,
I really enjoyed reading your blog. Good to see that you’re making a nice transition and still getting hit on by babes. You and your wife have done well for yourself, and I wish you guys all the happiness, peace and success in the world. ETS is barely surviving without your talents, but after reading about your pre Christimas driving exploits, I think you’re more qualified than some of the so called Bus Ops Instructors to teach road skills and manage road rage. I am proud to have been part of your past, and will continue to watch your blog for more cool stuff in the future. Not going to visit until you have all those damn bugs taken care of. My Mrs. is not used to what you call culture shock at the level you’ve described.
Anyway, it’s Boxing Day here in Canada and just around noon. The wifes at work and I’m still “patiently waiting” for my 15 year old son to wake up so we can go to Best Buy and pick up some XBOX 360 and PC games. He has his friends coming over to play this evening. Gotta draw the line though, I kick em all out before midnight cause I’m getting old and don’t feel like staying up too late. Gotta have my beauty sleep ya know. I check the mirror every morning to see what kind of results there are, and it’s just not working. Time for some Grecian Formula……
Temp here has been really nice at around -14 or so; nothing like the beaches you are walking on. Oh, while you are sweeping sand off the sidewalk, we’re still shovelling 10 cm of partly cloudy off the driveway. Couple of weeks ago, during the Tim Hortons (hey, do you have TH in Vietnam?) Roar of the Rings – I took that week off work to go – we hit -42 and stayed at around -30 all week. On Tues Dec 8, we were the coldest place in the WORLD. Boy can you pick the right times to be away in paradise. Hmmmm, I guess that means you won’t be coming to the Canadian Transit Bonsiel this year in Cowtown, huh? I’ll pass along your best to those who can make it.
I talk to Kenny Windsor about you from time to time. I think he misses you a lot. Especially the part about renting your basement! Heavy sigh, gotta go back to work on Tuesday. Oh well, at least it’s pensionable time. Only about 1 1/2 years of purgatory to go before retirement. My wonderful other half still has plans for us to move to BC.
Looks like I’ll never get that chance to teach you how to drive trains, but I know you’ll get over it.
Take good care of yourself,
Al
Nice to hear from you Al. We have a place in Victoria also…. Maybe see you here one day? Bugs all gone