My wife and I retired 5 years ago. I'm currently 63 and not about to tell how old my wife is.... I value the chance to live a while longer. As teachers we took early retirement, less pension, greater health care costs and it has been worth every penny. We have always enjoyed riding, camping, kayaking, etc. We lived in the woods of Maine for 30 years and enjoyed winter sports as well. However, that was when we also had the chance to get out of the house and run to work. Being cooped up for days on end in cold weather convinced us we needed a chance of scenery. We gave ourselves up to 5 years to find another home base. For the first couple of years we took the small motorhome and travel throughout the US to ride different rail trails and kayak and the like.

By accident, I didn't listen to the wife and followed the gps one day and found ourselves in a small town in central FL that had a nice long and scenic rail trail. We enjoyed a great ride and continued to Tampa. On our way back to Maine we stopped in the small town again for a few days. Upon our return to Maine we couldn't stop talking about the fact we had more fun in that area than any other place we had visited in the past. So..... we decided the following year we would spend the winter at a campground in central FL, ride, yak, oh and find a new home. All which we did the winter of 2010. We returned to Maine owning two homes and realized that it was time to sell one.

Since then we continue to travel in our motorhome generally at least one week a month and during the summer season. Our desination is alway near a place to ride. We try riding in the morning for 20 or so miles hop in the RV and drive for no more than 5 or so hours and repeat as needed. Did I mention we LOVE retirement. Last week we had our best year ever and covered 7099 miles on the bikes. We both decided it was time to replace our 18 year hybrids and am awaiting delivery of new Giant Escape RX 0s at our LBS. I say GO FOR IT