So many years have passed

I found a seasonal job, work 6 months and then play for 6 months. That way we could travel inexpensively with our camper trailer. We visited family in the pacific northwest, Yellowstone, Yosemite and on the way home had a day trip into Juarez.

Worked so well that we did it again the next year with a different itinerary. I retired in 1996.
 
Times does fly - it waits for no one to catch up. I'm making the best of it. I've been retired for 9 years. I was blessed to retire at 55. I thought about getting a part-time job but the jury is still out on that.:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: I'm enjoying life and getting to know me - I like her a lot :ROFLMAO:. I take Tai Chi classes - love it, and waiting for the arrival of my G-baby in Oct 2024, among other things.
 
I retired in 2002 at almost 66 and proceeded to complete my bucket list trips - multiple countries riding my motorcycle and/or horseback riding, Rode all over the US, Alaska and parts of Canada. as well as Europe and Asia and Japan. Sailed the Caribbean in a sailing ship - a lifelong dream. Had to give up my motorcycles and horseback riding at 81 when diagnosed with AMD, but had some really cool adventures in the interim.
 
Life passes starting out like a bowling ball barely rolling down a paved street with a slight incline that gradually gets steeper causing faster gravity acceleration. As a young school kid, summer vacations seemed endless. By our senior years, time is whizzing by at a terrifying rate with a cliff abruptly at the street end plunging over a tall dark bluff into a vast eternal abyss.

Retired, single, February 2017 at age 68.3 thus 7.3 years so far. During my 5+ decades working years, I often took off for extended periods between hardware electronic career jobs living off savings until they dwindled down that is much like being retired. That is how I became a landscape and nature photographer and serious snow skier. So already knew what retirement would sort of be like. Also why am not wealthy nor own a residence despite an upper class income because have already spent all but what I saved over the final 8 years. Yeah, never have been money nor world travel oriented.

I won't ever be bored as long as my fitness remains and I continue to live in such a vast modern urban area. And even if residence bound, as long as my eyes and keyboard/mouse hands work, have an unlimited interest in knowledge especially science that would satisfy me for several lifetimes. I've hardly scratched the surface of endlessly fascinating natural sciences on our planet Earth and its amazing life. Could enjoy living forever on this world if physically fit and live for that eternal life possibility. That noted, if I lived in some rural area alone as a single, yeah would probably become bored.

When large (>55 inch diagonal) 8k PC monitors become available with DisplayPort 2.1 I am going to become busy publicly exhibiting photography and enjoying talking to lots of others.
 
I retired 24 yrs ago today. [@50] Spent the first 16-17 yrs traveling [by motorcycle] all over the country. But then arthritis & it's auxiliary problems set in. Now, don't do much at all, if at all. But I really cannot complain as I really enjoyed those early years. Arthritis & such it just part of aging , so I must accept what life has handed me. I just wish that the medical community / industry would work harder at a remedy .
 
rgp said:
I retired 24 yrs ago today. [@50] Spent the first 16-17 yrs traveling [by motorcycle] all over the country. But then arthritis & it's auxiliary problems set in. Now, don't do much at all, if at all. But I really cannot complain as I really enjoyed those early years. Arthritis & such it just part of aging , so I must accept what life has handed me. I just wish that the medical community / industry would work harder at a remedy .
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That sounds amazing. What memories you must have of your adventures! :) Aging is so unpredictable the way it comes down for each individual. It really is an "age"... youth, middle aged, "old age". Your right, I too have accepted that I am in the age now. Acceptance is half the battle.
 
I officially retired four years ago and I'm not looking for work. I have enough hobbies to keep me going as long as my bad back and arthritic knees and hips allow. I also try to keep my six year old Jack Russell entertained. That alone can be time consuming. I absolutely love her.
 

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