Throughout the course of my life, June has always been a good month for me. It marks the beginning of the Summer – which is always my favorite time of year because the days get longer and the nights get warmer. But besides the upcoming season, June has, in the past, always been a month of positive change for me. This June is also going to be positive, but for a very different reason. This June marks a whole different event in my life – because for the first time ever – I am going on two vacations in the same month.

In just eleven days, I board a plane at Brooklyn, New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and head to Denver, Colorado where I will be the guest at the First Annual South Park Convention.

I have to say that I have never looked forward to anything else in my life with this much enthusiasm and anticipation. I am finally going to meet a majority of the people I correspond with every day, who are arriving at the same destination that I am, but coming from many different places to get there. Some are coming from as close as California – and some from as far away as London, England and Holland. I am so blown away by the fact that so many people who have never met each other are abandoning their lives for a week to all fly to the same destination and spend time together just because they share a love for the same television show – and the Club we are all members of.

If that is not exciting enough, I return on June 19th and just ten days later – board another plane, this time from New Jersey’s Newark Airport – and this time bound for Juneau, Alaska.

The reason for my trip to the farthest state in the Union is two fold. One, I have always wanted to see Alaska but never had a reason except for it’s beauty. Two – I met my reason through the South Park Booster Club. Montel, over the last six months, has become a great friend that I have never met, but speak to all the time. Despite the four thousand mile difference between us – we talk almost every day as if we lived next door to each other – and in just twenty-seven days – we will be able to talk to each other without the use of a telephone.

There is one drawback to going on these two vacations – I will miss Christine terribly. Granted, I had made these plans before meeting her, but I have to say that she has been such a lady with regard to me going away that her only gripe is that she will miss me – believe me – the feeling is mutual. If the statement is true that absence makes the heart grow fonder – then my heart will surely explode if I am away from her as log as I will be.

So here I am – two days into my favorite month, eleven days from my first vacation and twenty-seven days away from my second one. I have to say that although they are almost here – the anticipation is overwhelming – and so is the fact that I am going on vacation twice in the same month.

What a great way to kick off the summer of the best year of my life.