She’s the Greatest Gal in the Whole Entire World

Today is my anniversary. Eleven years ago today the most beautiful gal in the whole entire world became my lovely wife.

We set out not to conquer the world, but to explore it. All of it. The whole entire world.

Our honeymoon was our first trip to Europe. After more than a decade of travel together, we look back on that journey, shake our heads and laugh. What were we thinking? The stunts we pulled would make Clark W. Griswold look like Rick Steves.

London was the first stop on our first journey. It was cold and rainy (not that unusual for London, you know) and I was freezing because I was wearing shorts. Probably the only guy in the whole entire United Kingdom wearing shorts that day. I’m sure most people were asking themselves, “What the bloody hell is that twit thinking?”

We managed to get from the airport to Victoria Station without any trouble, but couldn’t figure out how to get to our hotel from the busy train station.

After standing around in the rain we decided to hail a cab, nervous that we didn’t have enough cash on us to get where we needed to go.

How did we solve that problem? We just hopped in the black cab and asked the cabby, “We only have 40 pounds, is that enough?” Luckily, he just grinned, drove us to our hotel and didn’t take us for every pence.

Thus began a great 11 years of life, love and adventure.

I’ve seen countless wonders in 38 countries on four continents over those 11 years, and I did it all with the most wonderful gal in the whole entire world.