With one teenager off to college this fall and another a sophomore in high school, Paul and I realized it won’t be long before we’ll have an empty nest and — surprise! — we’ll be able to take off and do some adventuring on our own.
On a recent road trip from Colorado to New York City in a mid-size Saturn (man, was that ever grueling – we’ll FLY next time!) , and the unexpected death of a friend while we were on that trip, we realized that life is indeed short and if you want to travel and see bits and parts of this country and this world, you have to try and make it happen — SOMEHOW.
Money is, of course, always an issue unless you’re independently wealthy, so our aim is to take both short- and long-distance trips as time and funds allow. The key is to make it a point to get out and travel more often, even if it’s only a couple hours away on occasion. Colorado, our home state, offers an abundance of cool places to see and neat things to do, so we’re fortunate in that regard. One place on the top of my “to see” list is the Sand Dunes. I’ve never been there before and I’d love to go.
Farther away, we’d ultimately like to visit Europe, particularly the U.K. and Eastern Europe. I’m of Scottish/Welsh ancestry and Paul’s of Czech/Slovak/Hungarian ancestry, so it makes sense these places would be on our “to visit” list. In 2001 I took my kids and my mom on a ten-day trip to the U.K. and Scotland and absolutely fell in love with the place, so I’m eager to get back there. Paul’s never been outside the U.S., so I can’t wait for him to experience the rush of being overseas!
Paul and I aren’t your average travelers. We like “darker” things, such as cemeteries, horror movies, alternative music, metal and quirky things, so we aren’t the usual sun visor-wearing, typical RV’ing travel types. We want to ferret out the interesting/unusual places without a set itinerary or guided travel group. This is why we call ourselves Ghouls on the Go. That and the fact that we are paranormal investigators and founders of the Colorado Springs Paranormal Association. It stands to reason, then, that we’ll be using many of our trips for paranormal investigations. Other trips will be related to our freelance business (I’m a professional author and he’s a professional videographer/illustrator). Finally, many trips will be for pleasure only.
Whether it’s only hours away or states/countries away, our goal is to have a good time and explore as much as we can within our budget and abilities.
Our latest trip, as mentioned before, was a road jaunt across several states (Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey) to New York City, where my son Jon began his freshman year at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. I’ll do a separate post on that trip later 
It deserves one of its own!
Prior to that, we made a trips to Oklahoma (returning through Texas) and to various places in Colorado, including two recent trips (July and August) to Silver Cliff Cemetery in Westcliffe, Colorado. On Monday, September 10, we’ll be traveling to an outdoor photo shoot in Lakewood, Colorado. The weekend of September 22/23 we’ll be camping at Mueller State Park, which is located near Divide, CO.
A few months from now, we will be visiting Las Vegas, NV. In 2008, we plan to travel to Depoe Bay, Oregon and through the New England section of the country. We might also pop in to San Francisco, CA and Los Cabos, Mexico.
If you like to travel like we do, and you’re on a budget (like most people are), we hope you’ll bookmark our blog, read it often, comment on it occasionally and enjoy coming along with us (vicariously, of course) on our trips, whether they be short- or long-distance.
Travel well!
Bev & Paul
