Looks like my Florida trip will be week of May 13th. confirming flights with TSA tomorrow and then will start new thread. Because some extra money has come my Way (hmmm), I have added a day to my trip so I can officially tour World Wide Corals as well and can purchase a camera to document this once in a lifetime trip.
WWC are the ones that got me into this hobby and in all honesty kept me in it to try again with this new tank. Hoping Victor and Josh will be available. I will be so giddy that whole week seeing all these display tanks, farms, etc. at both companies. I have never actually seen corals grown out into colonies or tanks that are actually designed from scape to coral. Only online in photos and videos. Not to mention the FISH! If I see a mature chocolate tang, he is going around my neck in a fish bowl like Gil, in What About Bob!
Unfortunately my son won’t be able to join me - he just got promoted to a manager at the restaurant he works at and can’t ask for that much time off in the first month. I totally understand and support that but am really really bummed. But can’t let him know that. If I’m honest with myself I probably could not have done Disneyworld or Universal this close to finishing radiation. Not prudent to put that kind of pressure on leg going on rides. Until these latest scans I just did, I didn’t know the extent of the damage.
My inclination is to always be paying it forward when it comes to my good fortune and blessings so I got this hair-brained idea to see if Dylan could join me and experience the best of the best in LFS in this country and take what he learned and utilize that knowledge at his store. I asked TSA and they said yes. Dylan is seeing if he could get away and let his two partners handle the store and also afford the trip as it’s on his dime.
My even further hair-brained idea would be if TSA comes to RAP in Anaheim in September, that Blaine does a client tank visit at my house to show all the progress I’ve had with the $1000 in corals I won. My tank already has 75% TSA corals so it would be loaded. And then visits Dylan’s store. It’s a stretch, but I’ve made a lot more crazy ideas then this come to fruition.
And even if he can’t make the trip, I will have a blast. I loved traveling on business trips when I worked for Berkshire Hathaway- and that was just to their offices in Omaha, Colorado, San Diego. I always thought of them as adventures- meet local people sitting at restaurant bars eating dinner, walking around a downtown looking at architecture. So this trip will be the same - I will get to meet cool people like TARAS!
@tbrown imagine the cool conversations at dinner with him and the TSA team! His videos are off the charts!
All of it would make me feel like I continue to have a purpose on this Earth that extends past family and friends. It’s how I’m wired.
