Better Things

"There you go again," Ronald Reagan used to say when he disagreed with whatever Jimmy Carter claimed.

As my wife will quickly point out, I am not much of a literalist, rarely taking anything at face value and finding multiple meanings everywhere.

While things are either black or white, truth is mostly found in the middle where it's always grey.

Reagan knew part of the truth but so did Carter and it's a shame they never co-Presidented.

The United States would likely be in much better shape!

Today though I'm taking Reagan literally ... "There I go again."

Sarah and I are taking her youngest kids to the Bahamas primarily so I can cross something off my bucket list.

My wife loves me a lot because there is absolutely nothing to do on San Salvador, an island of less than 1000 people, two hotels, a tiny grocery stores and a food boat that restocks the island every 10 days.

We're stepping back in time 50 years to the way island life used to be.

We have a house on a beach with no television, Internet or telephone. We'll have a car to navigate the one road on the island. A suitcase of food will get us by until the food boat arrives or after its gone. I-Pods will offer music variety and Sarah has another suitcase full of books.

There is Internet access on the island but only in certain places and it's spotty at best. I'll be writing daily but who knows when I'll be able to share with anyone.

For years I've heard people talk about Key West the way it used to be and now even Tybee Island before it was ruined by too much Government, a paramilitary police force and money wasted on Waste Management.

For a little while anyway, I want to escape the ridiculous madness of politics, the shallow excuse for news reported nightly by "personalities", religion that's at war with itself, policies set by corporate greed and the stuff that passes for music these days.

We're looking for better things.

San Salvador is the spot where Christopher Columbus first set foot in America as he discovered the new world.

We're looking to discover all sorts of things too ... about an island ... but mostly about ourselves.

Manyana ... maybe.