A funny thing happened to me last Friday night.  A colleague from work, Kemet, had won a pair of tickets to the Charlotte Bobcats basketball game and invited me to join him.  I picked him up prior to the game and we made it into downtown (Uptown) Charlotte easily enough, found parking in the dirt […]

During this countdown to whatever it is we’re going to call our status after we depart for Europe in May (retirement, no longer working full time, in-between jobs?) I’m encountering a phenomenon I knew would occur, but really only surfaces from time to time. This is the “That’s the last time I’ll do that” syndrome. […]

The announcement is out and public. Our long held dream to stop working full time has launched and the countdown to the last, for now, punch of the time clock comes with the dawning realization that it is for real.  We will enter into a new phase in our lives next spring that brings with […]

Given the future that beckons us, I though it advisable to start a blog, which I’m hoping will make it much easier to communicate about our adventures to a wide audience.