Coronado Crawl

We have this thing we do now and then, called the Coronado Crawl. Basically it involves visiting a few of the bars and a really good restaurant at Coronado Springs on the Disney property. It's all eating and drinking, with some nice walks in between. I wouldn't describe it as "expensive," relative to, well, everything right now, but it inevitably costs around $200. So it's cheaper than a night at that hotel, two tickets to any show, two tickets to a theme park, flights anywhere, etc. For a half-day of entertainment, we find it worth it.

It's a nice perk of living here that we can do vacation things without taking a vacation. It's not a substitute for real travel by any means, but when I'm inventorying memories, a lot of the best ones involve stuff like this. We've done the crawl three times this year, and especially in a year where we've spent half as much on travel (because I worked half as much), it's been nice to do something without a lot of hassle. Simon doesn't mind being our Uber, either.

I think a lot, too much probably, about what our future life looks like. With Simon less than two years away from adulthood, things will change. Part of financial planning is figuring out what kind of lifestyle you hope to have after you offboard (what I call "retirement," since I'm sure we'll work doing something). But I don't want that to hold us back from living now, while we're both relatively healthy. Those bridge years, between offboarding and being able to use retirement funds and (hopefully) collect social security, are the real wild card. Ideally, I want that period to be as long as possible.

Two years from now, things will be somewhat more flexible. I wonder what our version of the crawl will be then?