Sunday, February 8, 2015

“Now that you are retired, what are you going to do?”

“Now that you are retired, what are you going to do?”

Wow! It’s amazing to me that people are even asking us that question. Where has the time gone? It doesn't seem like 23 years ago that someone else (the United States Navy) packed up our belongings and moved us to our first duty station – Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in 29 Palms, CA. What an amazing feeling! We stationed there for four years, and here we are 19 years later.
As many of you know, our last duty station was also with the Marines – Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC, which ended this past August, 2014. This time we only stayed for one year. (That is a whole story in-itself.) Rather than rent, we stumbled upon a fabulous opportunity to buy a home very near the base, one street in from the water. It’s our dream home! Retirement plans were working much as we had planned.

But then …


Boy, howdy!How plans can change.

Over the coming months, I’d like to write about retirement and what it I thought it was going to be, what it is, and what, perhaps, it ought to be – from my perspective.

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