Back in 2002, I was having a milestone birthday and thought a celebration was in order. I invited my friends and family to join me in Las Vegas, a place I had avoided for many years.<\/p>\n
When I called my travel agent to make arrangements, she laughed and said, \u201cOh, Barbara, I can\u2019t see you in Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the point,\u201d I told her.<\/p>\n
As you probably know, that was the beginning of a surprising love affair that led me to moving to that unlikely place. That wasn\u2019t all that happened as a result of that party.<\/p>\n
My younger siblings decided to mark their milestone birthdays with gatherings. One year we met in Lucca, Italy. The next year it was the lovely Cotswolds in Britain. That was followed by trips to Venice and Catalina Island.<\/p>\n
When another milestone rolled around for me last year, a big trip didn\u2019t feel right so we spent a day at California Adventure and called it a celebration.<\/p>\n
About six weeks ago, my sister Nancy sent us an email saying she\u2019d like to mark her upcoming birthday in 2014 in Provence. Would we be interested in joining her?<\/p>\n
We gave her a unanimous and enthusiastic thumbs up and the planning began. We decided to add on Amsterdam at the beginning and Paris at the end.<\/p>\n
The time and budget kept growing as the hundreds of emails kept flying.<\/p>\n
I checked my Wings (travel) fund. It was going to need some financial help. Although I had the money elsewhere that I needed for the trip, I thought it would be more fun to create a special project to fund it. (Note: this is how the self-employed create stuff.)<\/p>\n
After giving it some thought, I decided to schedule some teleclasses and designate the income to Nancy\u2019s birthday celebration.<\/p>\n
Checking my calendar, I saw that the timing wasn\u2019t auspicious for me to add a new Idea Safari to my current schedule. Then I got the idea to run a sale on my existing teleclass audios.<\/p>\n