SLOUCHING
OFF THANKSGIVING
As we are of a
certain age and as we have shed our careers and our families have scattered
across the universe our Thanksgiving holiday has been more of a chore to be
avoided. For too many years she and I have struggled with the holiday. Too
often we cooked an expansive meal for just ourselves. I even learned to
efficiently carve a turkey, (info culled from a Youtube CIA video). Sadly, my
culinary skills were never properly displayed.
We tried going
out to restaurants on the holiday only to find this especially depressing with
divorcees and their sad mommy-missing children or kitchen challenged hordes
paying for overpriced meals.
ONLY YOU CAN MAKE YOU HAPPY
So, rather than
continuing this downward trend we have opted to “get outta town” on Thanksgiving
Day on our way to St. Vincent and Bequia. This has served a dual purpose. We
have busied ourselves with the whys and wherefores of travel thus avoiding the
holiday and with it the bustle of holiday travelers. We departed Philadelphia
yesterday morning and got to Miami unbelievably early. We are always worried about
our Miami flight connections, and we factored in a hotel stay near the airport,
but we could have easily made it to the second leg of our travels to SVG.
We had a holiday meal of burgers and chicken wings and craft beers at a sports bar that is attached to the hotel. If they offered Turkey burgers on the menu we would have ordered that in our only deference to the holiday.
WORKING THE
SYSTEM
Janet has Platinum
status with American Airlines, so we are now hanging out at their “Admirals Club”
area in Miami. As this is an international flight she is allowed one guest (ME)
and I’m drinking something with rum after eating breakfast waiting for our
flight to board. This is the best way to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.
Hope you all survived it.
Love Janet and
greg
© 2025 by
Gregory Dunaj
Enjoy
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