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We're going with plan for $20K per year, but that will include a few weeks living in the south to escape the northern winter.

I didn't realize I was ready to retire until we got a new boss, who is actually very good, but I couldn't get myself motivated to do the things needed to help him to help company improve. Took a vacation because I thought I just needed a rest. All vacation did was confirm that I had nothing...

Thanks We will visit Victoria, taking ferry from Vancouver. We appreciate the suggestions.

Heading to Vancouver next week. Never been there and can't wait to see the beautiful city!

Retired Congratulations, and welcome. Looks like you're on an ideal transition between hectic full time work and something not so hectic, but not quite retirement.

Will be traveling to Minnesota in June, spending a few days in Minneapolis area and was looking for an inn, B+B there. Also, looking for an inn or B+B near Lake Superior for 3-4 days, boating, hiking. I appreciate your recommendations! Piano

Why I am retiring at start of 2012 Just checking in as I get closer....can almost smell it.

Why I am retiring in 2012 Thanks for the encouragement. Meetings went well, bus rides too long, but a weekend has passed andhad moments of relaxation and almost thought, hey, maybe I'm making too much of this stress thing, and....but, was back to the management crises yesterday. Bought book...

Update on my "retirement job" in senior management: Tomorrow, I am on a 3 hour bus ride each way, leaving home at 5:15 AM for a 6 hour board meeting, reception to follow, catching a bus home at 8:00PM. Our organization is imploding. I am making 3 presentations, have gained and lost and gained...

Leaving job in 2012...thinking April 2012, in time for spring, good weather. Will help the transition.

expenses $90K, gross (including roughly 20% for fed, state, SS taxes)

returns 11% in 2010

54 and ER I'm also 54, and am considering similar avenues. Your plan looks good to me. We're all wondering what impact on SS will be in future years, but even if your estimate is 10 or 20% high, it seems that your math works out. Best of luck! Piano

That's a relief....

Am contemplating driving from Palm Desert, CA to Sedona, AZ in March 2011. Am I nuts? I live in upstatate NY, so the terrain is very different. But, I'm a dreamer, and would like any advice on the wisdom of doing this...places to see, stay on route. Thanks. Piano

I am a stutterer, and decided about 20 years ago, in my early thirties, to get speech therapy. The best thing I learned was the "eased" approach to saying consonants...there's a more clinical name for that approach, but that's how it felt for me. I do a lot of public speaking in my job, and I...

Eighteen months in this job, and...you were absolutely right! I must have been out of my mind.

It's January in Upstate New York and spring is only 3 months away. So, I need a diversion. I am planning to expand ground cover in our backyard with hypericum. Would prefer never to mow a lawn again! So far this winter, the deer have not touched the bushes I planted last spring, and the...

Congratulations! I am getting closer each day. Enjoy yourself....

Taos We had a great time in Taos a couple of years ago. Went in October, hiked in the mountains, felt like we were eye-level with the stars in the evening. Very relaxing.

So what "happens" when this "happens?" Sounds pretty scary. ------------ The first time I did temporarily lose function in my left eye and mouth...like a Bell's Palsy. All restored with blood thinner. No surgery. Second time didn't have these symptoms, but when exercising had a sharp pain...

carotid Thanks, Rich...I appreciate it. I will check on this.

Thanks, Rich. Both occurences were following very intense exercise...so, I've obviously learned to moderate my activity. Am 6 ft 2 in...and a bit overweight. They tested specifically for Marfan's and this was negative. I'm trying to figure out how to get back into an exercise program without...

I have had two of these---first was 5 years ago, the second one was 2 years ago. Aorta has been checked and cleared---no problem. Did genetic tests and do not have a connective tissue disorder. Have any of you had this? Thanks. Piano

"retirement" j-b Indeed...I didn't say that this new job has no stress....