One of the places Jon and I wanted to visit for like, FOREVER, is Yellowstone. We almost planned a trip out West last year, but instead opted to go to Miami for various reasons. But this year, we finally did it! We booked our campground in Yellowstone National Park this morning. Whoohoo! Let the countdown begin! (ehhh....8 long months to wait)
You know, I think the most wonderful part of any vacation is the planning. The organizing. The dreaming. The magic!
OF course I would say that.
If any of you know me, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to plan and organize. Give me an Excel spreadsheet and a few colorful highlighters, and somehow magic happens. I can turn a blank page into a treasure map of what, when, where, and how much. It is beautiful.
....it's also C.R.A.Z.Y.
C-R-A-Z-Y!
I am one of those looney bird planners that could plan each moment of my life down to the bathroom breaks. Don't worry, I do have some sense of self control. But don't you even doubt that deep inside I secretly wish I could make a spreadsheet for every single day.
What is quite funny though, is that no matter how much planning, preparing, and budgeting that I do, something always happens that I couldn't have planned for.
...A mishap.
...A mistake.
...A misadventure.
The Misadventures of Jon and Beth blog started because every vacation we go on something bad happens. Every single one. Either not getting sleep or getting sick or whatever, something always happens.
Let me give you a quick recap:
2004 - We returned from our honeymoon cruise only the find our brand new apartment home had flooded.
2005 - With our second attempt at cruising, returning home was much better than the cruise itself. We went on an excursion with a drunk driver who LITERALLY almost killed us. That is no exaggeration.
2006 - New York City was a blast except for the nights. Lets just say some people can snore so loud that you cannot sleep. It was bad. Really bad.
2008 - Our winter vacation to Colorado turned into a nightmare after we got T-boned in our rental car and Jon lost his license which meant we could not get back on the plane to Georgia.
2008 - The all inclusive trip to the Dominican Republic should have been the best 5 days of the year, until day 2 when I contracted a terrible bacterial infection from eating unclean food. I spent the rest of the time not eating anything. I guess all inclusive included the nasty bugs they carry there.
2010 - We tried cruising again only to be put into a room where a banging and clanking noise kept us up all night every single night. I don't remember sleeping ANY on that trip.
2011 - We traveled to Atlantis Paradise Island, but paradise turned into "not so nice" when they overbooked and had to put us up in a dump of a hotel for 2 days. Complaining gets you nowhere in the Bahamas.
2011 - September's cruise with our friends was great until Jon's face swelled up like a beach ball due to a saliva stone - not to mention the room we ended up with reeked of smoke. They had to use the Ozone machine every single day just to make it tolerable.
2012 - Miami went great except the drive down: flat tire, sleeping in the car at the rest stop because we could not find a hotel with vacancy, and then on the way home the truck started making horrible noises.
and so it begins....
Let me just tell you, I am in no way complaining. I know that we get to travel so much and things are bound to happen, but boy on boy, it just seems that we always end up with really bad luck. We must be the unluckiest couple in the history of ever! But it sure doesn't stop us from trying again.
Let the countdown begin. Yellowstone here we come!
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