Where does the time go?

I can appreciate the wise old saying: "Life is like a roll of toilet paper - the closer you get to the end of it, the faster it goes."

It was around this time 10 years ago that we got the call from our realtor/broker up north: "Come back north..."

That was the beginning of our retirement.  The studio was sold.  House and commercial property sold.  The C-Dory was ordered and the Corsair trimaran had just sold.  Our lives were going to change.

Plenty of changes in the last decade.  Lots of miles under the keel of the boats and the wheels of the vehicles and RVs.  It has been a lot of traveling.  And enjoying almost every mile of it.  ;-)

Not that many people had smart phones in 2006; the first iPhone wasn't released until 2007.  Thanks to Verizon and Apple not playing nice together, I bought one of the first Droids.  We dropped land lines.  Our unlimited data plan had us using way less than a gig a month back then.  Oh, and that was before 3G.  You had to insert a data card into the laptop, and that was the only device it worked on.  The iPad?  Didn't exist.

We were making the change from being sailors to being powercruisers.  We had quite a few job offers those first couple of non-working years and said, "Thanks, but no thanks."

Izzy's predecessor, Molly the boat cat, taught me about walking a cat on a leash.  Before the book of that name.  The 3 of us went coast to coast to coast with the boat.  The Florida Keys.  The Pacific Northwest.  A trip to Yellowstone led to saying, "Yes," to one of those job offers.  That led to some interesting extended times in some great places.

We met lots of great people in our travels.  We lost some family members; miss them every day.

We got back into RV travel.  Motorcycles (for us) got smaller, eventually morphing into Honda scoots.

Spent more time in the desert, because that is where our kid and her husband are.

It has been an interesting decade for us.  These days, no one says, "You're too young to be retired..."  We have been able to get into 55+ parks, no questions asked.

Can't wait to see what's next.