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Retirement seemed so far away when we embarked on our first family European trip back in 2011.  This 2017 trip, our sixth back packing vacation to Europe, was seeded by Jenny and Victoria who, after viewing The GodFather II movie, felt like it would be nice to visit Sicily.  They also suggested that it would be even nicer if we managed to drop by England to visit our older daughter working in London.  From those ideas, we crafted a rough travel itinerary from Rome to London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrating retirement was not the only big event this past June \u2013 Victoria graduated from high school after spending six years juggling a demanding school work load, culminating in her successful completion of her International Baccalaureate (IB) program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Jessica, she did not want to miss out on all the travel excitement and very early on, she committed to joining us for part of our visit to Sicily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sliding into retirement&#8230; Go to first post of this trip Jenny and I just ended our working career last Friday. Retirement seemed so far away when we embarked on our first family European trip back in 2011. 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