Working in anticipation of travel

My work in Soyo, Angola has to be completed before our vacation can start.  Additionally, I will be taking a training class in London before my “official” vacation begins.  

I perform IT work for Angola LNG (a Liquified Natural Gas plant) here in Soyo.  I spend 28 days working in Soyo (12hrs/day, 7 days/wk) and then take 28 days off.  During my off-time I can travel wherever I wish.  For the past two and a half years I have always traveled home to California; so this is our first time taking advantage of being so close to other vacation destinations.  My wife, Deloris, will be joining me in London to begin our experience, and since we were just married in March this will be our honeymoon as well.

I pride myself on not doing things half-assed, and this is no different.  For many years we have dreamed of the legendary BMW European Delivery experience about which so many BMW enthusiasts have raved – and now it is going to become a reality.  Vacation.  Honeymoon.  New car.  The whole enchilada.  

I sold my 2011 BMW M3 earlier than expected so I could justify purchasing the 2015 BMW M4 which we will see for the first time on June 26th at BMW Welt in Munich.  We decided on Sakhir Orange with a manual transmission.  Most of the goodies were added, but we decided against the ceramic brake package because the cost was more than a traditional big brake kit.  I plan to write more about this decision in a future post, but I will close that thought now by saying this car will see track time, and that played into the decision.

So what am I doing now with 12 days left until I travel to London?  Simple – writing this blog post and enjoying a local beer at the base pub in Soyo.  Life is good today, but it will be much better shortly.