Retiring (someday)(maybe)(I hope.)

Older ideas part 1 I'm going to talk a little about some older retirement ideas we had while My wife was still alive.  For one reason or another, many (all?) of these were tossed out at the time, but if the situation comes up. I might be willing to revisit some of them.  This might take up a couple posts. Houseboats and Sailboats I love the water.  While rivers, streams, oceans, and creeks, even ponds, have their attractions, my favorite seems to be lakes. Coastal waters have major tides, and storms can bring a surge that can leave a boat in the middle of the interstate, or worse.  Not to mention that salt water, for all of it's benefits, and be terrible corrosive to a boat, or even your skin.   Rivers and streams have major flooding with storms, or even with spring run off.  A broken levee can flood everything for miles.  These days with fertilizer and pesticide use, waste finding it's way into the water, and just the trash so often du...

Like many of us baby boomers, I'm looking at retirement.  I have been for a while. Ironically, a couple years ago, I had it all figured out.  About now, May or June, 2019, I would give my notice, we would fix up and sell the house, and move to either Washington State, or Colorado so my daughter could go to school there with in-state tuition, and my wife and I could get legal pot. We didn't have a huge 401k or savings account, but my wife had a pension from teaching, and I would be getting social security.  We wouldn't be living a luxurious lifestyle, but we would be retired, have a house, our daughter could go to the school she wanted, and there would be enough left for the occasional vacation, trip to see our son (if he didn't move with us), and a trip to the pot shop and all the fishing I could want. Then, April 2018, it all fell apart.  We had gone to Colorado to look at some schools and look at some houses, see if we wanted to live there. While we were ther...