I was just hanging around in Central America when.....
Neither of us expected to find someone new in our lives when we met on a trip touring the Mayan civilization in Central America. Faye and I had been retired from our professions about five years before we met, she from the banking industry and me from academia. We both were satisfying our desires for international travel and just happened to be on the same trip together after both making last-minute decisions to take this particular trip. The attraction wasn't instant, but developed over the course of the trip when we discovered the many similarities of experience and attitudes we shared. Ironically, we also learned that we shared the same protector animal in the Mayan culture based on our birthdays, even though we were born about 3.5 years apart on different days and in different months (she is younger than I). She told me she thought I was "cute." Cute was not a term I would use to describe myself at my lofty age, but I was charmed by her thinking so and saying so. Within two weeks of returning home--me to Florida and her to California--we were already in contact several times a day and making plans to visit one another. Everything I learned about her made more certain that she was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Fortunately for me, she seemed to want to be with me, too. We will celebrate our three-month anniversary tomorrow; our 90 day warranties will have expired and we will start the after-warranty period of our relationship. I could not be happier.