When Dotty and I first got hitched it was 1973 and the world was a very different place.
We took all the wedding gift money we had gotten, and bought tickets to the farther tropical island we could afford.
We took almost nothing with us, and didn’t even have reservations for a place to stay — we did it all by the seat of our pants, just making decisions as they presented themselves. We ended up in a small, rickety cabin with no power or air conditioning, and it was the most amazing week of my life. For our forty year anniversary I surprised her with a trip to that exact same cabin, only now it had been upgraded with electricity and climate control! That was all my doing, of course , I had been working with a local contractor of the last six months to have a cooling system installed in the place. I wanted to recreate that magical honeymoon, but we are much older now, and going a full week with no A/C would be miserable for the both of us. She was delighted to see the place, and even more delighted to find that it now had power, running water, and an amazing air conditioner with vents in every room. After spending all that money to renovate the place and install an HVAC system, I went ahead and just bought the place as a vacation home. Now we can come down whenever we want, maybe we can even live here one day, and enjoy the sweet cooling system.