Summer Vacation and the End of the World

If you’re one of those who accepted the idea that, based on  the  Mayan Calendar,  the world is coming to an end in December 2012 -

{The date December 21st, 2012 A.D. (13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count), represents an extremely close conjunction of the Winter Solstice Sun with the crossing point of the Galactic Equator (Equator of the Milky Way) and the Ecliptic (path of the Sun), what that ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree. This is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years. It will come to resolution at exactly 11:11 am GMT.}

- You may have less time than you think! 

Followers of a Fundamentalist talk-show host are convinced that the Rapture will occur on May 21st of this year.  According to CNN , a bunch of believers have sold and/or given away or just abandoned all their worldly possessions, bought motor-homes and are touring the country spreading the WORD.

By their calculations, the Rapture will be followed by all the bad stuff predicted in the book of Revelations, with the whole thing coming to a screeching halt on October 21st.

That has me wondering about our summer travel plans, and there are plusses and minuses, like:

• The Rapture should mean that highways and campgrounds will be slightly less crowded.
• Speculators will undoubtedly use Armageddon to push fuel prices even higher.

I’m tempted to just plan the trip of a lifetime.  No matter how high fuel prices go, if the world is ending in October, what’s the point in saving?  My wife, the voice of caution, would say “Yeah, but what if it’s not?  Then what are we going to do”  It’s a quandary.

I have no expectation of being caught up in the Rapture, but if, by some inexplicable quirk of Divine Intervention, I should be, then all bets are off.