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[salsabike]

Go Muirenn!

[ny biker]

Good luck!!!

[Pax]

Muirenn, that sounds really interesting, hope you enjoy it.

[Pax]

We made it, we officially live at the beach in Florida!!

It was a looooong three day drive with my newly bionic knee, icing was a challenge so it was just swollen and sore most of the time. But we're here, I'm prolly iced and comfy, and we already made a pilgrimage to our favorite beach dump for a burger and a beer!

[OakLeaf]

Yayyyy! Made it ahead of the Memorial Day traffic, too.

Enjoy!

[ny biker]

We made it, we officially live at the beach in Florida!!

It was a looooong three day drive with my newly bionic knee, icing was a challenge so it was just swollen and sore most of the time. But we're here, I'm prolly iced and comfy, and we already made a pilgrimage to our favorite beach dump for a burger and a beer!

Congrats!!

[Crankin]

Congrats, Pax.
Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me, because I am worried that when I finally stop working (again), the same thing is going to happen as when I tried to stop working a few years ago. Right now I love the combination of working part time and having days off during the week. But, I get really bored on some of my days off. Not all of the time, but enough that it worries me. I already know that I can't do really long rides every day, so I imagine I will be doing a bit more hiking when I finally stop working. And I really don't like the idea of volunteering. It always has felt like slave labor to me, and most of the time it also felt like they were taking advantage of a hostage population of educated women who weren't working. I know that's not politically correct, but the only volunteering I've been able to sustain (for 10 years, actually) is leading rides for AMC. I just don't know a lot of people who aren't working, except for some of the crazy cyclist guys I ride with, and they are always going off doing long rides and/or tours without their spouses. DH is probably going to work 7 more years and since I am 3 years older than him, I am not sure I want to keep working all of that time. Just a thought...

[Crankin]

Well, that was my thought when I changed careers, because I can do this as long as I can talk and write. Several people just retired from my clinic and they are in their late 70s. However, in order for me to keep working, I have to take 30 CEUs every 2 years, so that is a cost and time to maintain my license. I guess it's not a huge deal and it would be easy to go down to one or two days where I work.
My dad worked until he was 85 or so and my mom's dad worked until the day he died, from the after effects of a car accident, when he was 91. He made most of his $ after the age of 65, and his colleagues were continually bugging him to give up his customers to them (he was a scrap metal dealer). But, in my head, there's a lot of stuff I want to do, yet when I have the time to do things, I seem to get stuck in my patterns of doing whatever I do now! I think part of it, is that I have spent a lot of time making my career such a huge part of my life and insisting I could never be a stay at home mom (which is true), that I get truly antsy unless i am busy and have plans all of the time.