Day 237, Year 10: Headed to New Hampshire Tomorrow
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015
Weather: Partly Sunny, Still Windy, High Temp in the Low 60’s F
Location: Quissett Harbor, Falmouth, MA
We are headed to New Hampshire tomorrow. The Superintendent of Schools that I worked for just prior to my early retirement is retiring and the ‘celebration’ is tomorrow evening in Concord. Chris Rath made it possible for me to spend my last six years in the Concord School District living out a dream and I will always be grateful to her for that. So it is important to me to go tomorrow night to help celebrate the end of her very successful career as an educator. In the late 1990’s, I wrote a proposal for a sabbatical from my classroom teaching position. I wanted to do something to make professional development for teachers easier and more meaningful. I was awarded the sabbatical and after that year, I was hired by Chris to continue on in the position of Professional Development Coordinator. Concord had never had a person in this position and I enjoyed the next six years doing just what I had proposed in my sabbatical. I loved it and was very reluctant to retire early to live out Mark’s dream of sailing around the world. But I did it and never looked back. I went from my dream job to a dream sail around the world. Lucky me.
Strangely, by heading north we are going to have warmer weather. The daytime temperature in Concord will be in the mid-70’s. Hurray. It is supposed to reach the 70’s here next week and we are certainly looking forward to that. In Concord we are staying with our friends the Kanegsbergs, and after a Saturday morning visit with them, we will return to the Cape via Billerica, Massachusetts. My niece Candi lives there and we are going to visit and have dinner before heading home. Candi’s daughter Katie had a baby in May and we are going to get to meet Hailey. After dinner in Billerica, we will make the last leg home. Mark has to work on Sunday, so we’ll try to roll in here before too late on Saturday night.
