Here's another exciting installment in the quest to create a plan for the totally great vacation and then to actually achieve it.

I've given up on Tahiti, but if I really didn't go anywhere next year I could, possibly, manage to put aside a little money so that in 2006 I could go there. That might be a plan.

However, I would also like to attend the 2006 Mensa World Gathering. You never know. My true love might be there and looking for me.

Another option is full-on participation in Burning Man 2006 in Black Rock. That gives me over a year to get my costume and art together. My little booth sporting a desert-ready Mac playing my avant garde animated art. It could happen.

A few things in 2006 might be worth staying home for in 2005: the Mensa World Gathering and working on my house. Aside from that, I feel I must get some sun in February and that means leaving home for at least a weekend. Arrggghh. Why can't I just win the lottery?

I'm considering staying at home in 2005 so I can have a real vacation in 2006. I have no reason not to and I'm tired of cheap, make do jaunts. Not that I'm opposed to camping, I would rather do it in style instead of in frugality.