Thursday, January 9, 2014

The act of Retirement

Well, after a combined total of almost 55 years goverment service, Robin and set our retirement dates. She was first on October 19th, 2013 and I will follow shortly thereafter in April, 2014.

I can't begin to tell you the thought and planning that went in to settling on these dates but suffice it to say that there was a remendous amount of "what if", "how will we?", "are we sure?"  and a hundred other similar questions.

It's exciting and scary, but actually a great relief to have put the dates in (mostly) stone from our planning point of view.  While we had hoped to manage to work, sail, buy a new boat, sell everything, move aboard and sail away .. that one thing ... work ... seemed to constantly interfere with getting anything else done.  With commutes and opposite days off, the work cycle was far more consuming that I'd expected. It not only limited the amount of available spare time but also the available energy to accomplish missions. 

This major, life pathway changing step will mean a lot to us in terms of finances, free time and project priorities.  It's new territory; we''ve never been retired before :) 

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