Recent content by Happy Guy

I know a few people our age who ride and I've always been puzzled by the apparent contradiction between the thoughtful, long-term effort to provide for one's future (AKA FIRE) and riding a motorcycle (or hang-gliding or climbing Everest, for that matter). Rich, you've no doubt heard it in the...

Here's an autumn sunset over Pamlico Sound viewed from Frisco on the Outer Banks.

From my grandfather, a NYC fire captain: "Never go through a window head first," when someone was being hasty. My mother: "Don't wish your life away," when we would say I wish this or I wish that.

I was just wondering how far people live from medical care (hospital, doctors, rescue squad). How much consideration was given that issue when you decided where to live? A speaker at a retirement seminar thought it was the most important criteria in deciding where to live. What do you think?

Achiever51: Yea, that could provide a lot of material. But it's not too far from reality. A couple of years ago we found a place on the internet over near Goldsboro that was exactly what we were looking for, at a fantastic price. Too fantastic, I thought. So I pulled up the aerial photos and...

Thanks for the advice, CC. I look at the Raleigh News Observer on-line and will investigate some of the more local papers. Tom

Greetings FIREES: I turned in my papers and as of COB June 1 will be retired after 32 years with the Federal Government in DC. I’m not exactly retiring early by some people’s standards (I’m 55), but by almost any other comparison I’m extremely fortunate in being able to go at this time. I’ve...