What's your dream?

[li10up]

My dream is to be able to quit work in my 40s and still be able to afford health insurance to cover any mishaps I might have while cycling and backpacking all over the US. It would be perfect if DH was with me but since he likes neither he'll have to follow me around in a motorhome and be my support team.

[RoadRaven]

Like you, li, I want to retire in 6-7 years (I'll be late 40's) when my youngest son finishes school, and spend more time with my partner... I have a great job, but it keeps me from him, and I hate that.

We are going to go to various bike comps round the country, maybe follow some tours overseas, we gonna grow old together...

We want to save enough money so we can live off the interest and don't have to rely on anyone else... just ourselves, and our bikes...

And the final part of my dream? That all five of my children find a partner as loyal and as true and as devoted as I have found... and that they love, like and adore their partner as I do mine.

[five one]

It's a given that I hope to be riding bikes with DH for many years to come. He is a lymphoma survivor coming up on 16 years of remission after having had a bone marrow transplant in 1991. He was a cyclist before cancer and used his bike to regain his fitness three times during his years of illness. Four, actually, because he had a total knee replacement in 2004, also cancer related. Without good health, future dreams are much harder to achieve. It would be fun to do a multiday B&B-type bike tour every year for as long as we can.

I would retire tomorrow if it were financially feasible, but realistically I see myself here counting beans for another ten years . After that, I think I would like to go back to college and take some classes that I didn't have time for (or interest in) when I was in school back in the early 70s. I may try my hand at a little cottage industry making my famous (with family, friends, coworkers, and several SSs anyway ) gingerbread cookies.

I would love to buy a piece of property in Colorado, and design and build our dream home. Solar, energy efficient, as green as possible. That's where the college classes come in. It would be a place where we would live out our days comfortably and in beautiful surroundings.

I found the following in the Tuesday San Jose Mercury News. I hope I will be like Etta, but cycling rather than running, when I'm 80.

good advice from Etta

[emily_in_nc]

To retire in a few years (I'm 46 now) and split my time between living in the mountains in a neat little cabin (hiking, kayaking, riding, camping, etc.) and cruising to points south (Florida Keys, Bahamas, Carribbean) on a sailboat the other half of the year (when it's cold in the mountains). All with my DH of 22 years, of course!

We are taking one step at a time towards that dream. Took the sailing lessons over the past few years, have already started a boat search, and just bought a small piece of property in the NC mountains to build our little cabin. We are very blessed in so many ways....

Emily

[Melalvai]

I've really enjoyed reading everyone's dreams. Thanks for all the great replies.

[solobiker]

One of my dreams is to bike across the country. I don't think DH would be up for that so I would have to find someone to do it with. I would also like to through hike the contential divide trail. It would also be nice to retire early but I am not sure if that would ever be a possibility. May all of your dreams come true.