After all these wonderful posts, a bit more detail. First, I would have been long retired, but my wife was diagnosed with ovarian cancer four years ago. I had been preparing for Mom and Dad’s passing, but not this. Thank God she is currently in remission, and we do a lot of OC events all over the country. For anyone in the same unfortunate situation, cancer treatment is enormously expensive. So I really needed great health care benefits. We’re covered through years’ end, but I know insurance will be expensive going forward.

As for complete retirement, no that’ll never happen. We have a number of petroleum and c-store businesses which we invested in, but they are a lot of work.

As for hobbies, in addition to cycling I also love astronomy and am going to learn to scuba dive. Each of those are time consuming. Astro is another hobby one can completely lose themselves in, and I’ve always felt rushed, until now. And I have quite an arsenal of scopes, binoculars, etc.

And finally, I do plan to teach. I have taught engineering courses in the past. I don’t think it would be too much of a stretch to teach at UF, but I’d rather volunteer and teach STEM to younger children, I have been blessed in academics and my career, and I feel a need to give something back. So that’s part of my plan.