A Side Trip from the Beach

Mark A. Schrader
7 min readJul 24, 2021

A family day with parental ephemera

Author photo of the horses on the beach.

Today started like any other side trip day at the beach.

The wife and mother-in-law got it in their heads that we needed to see something else on one of our beach days. We discuss side trips every year, and sometimes I get input.

As they were discussing, my wife mentioned our vacation with my family earlier…

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Mark A. Schrader

a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, ABFP SM and Retirement Management Advisor® who believes most of life is lived and imagined outside the numbers.