Congratulations Bryan. I'll take a "two 6 mo vacation" to go. I retired on same date, but, in 2014 - I've just passed the 1 year & 3 mo mark.
For a year, I lived and traveled in Europe and Asia, then shifted back to the US this year. Reno'd my US condo that I had bought a while back. That and unpacking kept me busy for the last 3 months. Trying to build a healthy lifestyle (don't want to say "build a routine"
and do some interesting stuff (classes, interest groups, etc), but, generally avoiding any activity that requires a defined commitment of time or an organizational role.
At times I feel a bit aimless, but, that goes with the territory I s'pose. I keep reassuring myself that living an aimless life is
the aim. Financial obsession/worrying is still there - I suppose it will never go away and one has to learn to live with it by limiting the effort and time one puts into such matters.
What some here (and elsewhere) had said about retirement is true - it takes a couple of years to accustom oneself to retired life. Perhaps it takes time to
come to accept the retired life rather than
growing accustomed to it. In some ways, I'm fine with the act of
living retired (the day-to-day aspect of it), but, still wondering if I shouldn't define what
retired life is. For instance, a set of
objectives, tasks to be
completed, progress
measured, etc. Still addicted to certain w*rk habits, as you can see. <lol>
All that said, I'm more curious about what the next thing is going to be than anxious about whether I'll end up somewhere particular.
