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Good idea and value to visitors. (I visit there frequently).
If I am successful in my quest you may see me at the Tripp Sawmill in Greenfield Village in the 2020 season or later. My plan is to continue working for the utility company until around June of 2020.
This is the retirement forum so I'm guessing most of you know about atlases and may even own one.
#1 hint is unless you are new to this forum you know SC lives in NE TN so it is reasonable to assume the boss will start in a nearby portion of Virginia.
Looking at the atlas you will see 3 rivers that flow from SW VA into the TN valley and on to the Ohio river by way of the Tennessee. Downhill all the way! Past Cherokee dam all the dams will have locks and during times of power generation the dams release water for a pretty good current.
I'm about 3.5 years out from retirement, long time reader first time poster. Here are some of my goals:
* attend a one month yoga teacher training retreat in Baja California and become certified to teach yoga. (At 62 when this happens if all goes according to plan I will undoubtedly be the oldest person there)
* then volunteer as a yoga teacher for jails and treatment centers through a program in my city
*spend a month in Buenos Aires intensively studying Spanish (which I used to speak fairly well)
*travel throughout South and Central America
*do a one to two month overland trip across sub-Saharan Africa
*do a six week trip through SE Asia including a one week yoga retreat in Bali
*gardening
*so a lengthy hiking/trekking/walking trip (not sure of destination yet -- maybe Machu Picchu, maybe the Camino in Spain, maybe in Japan)
My dream in retirement is to constantly travel the world staying anywhere from a month to six months in each country, chasing good weather, seeing the occasional tourist site, and eating everything local I can find to eat.
I want to visit buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Have seen a number of them already, but there are many more that I haven't, and most are worth a second visit anyway.
I am a FLW enthusiast as well. Grew up in Madison, WI his birthplace.
Have seen Taliesen East and West and a number of building in and around Madison and Chicago.
Nothing unusual really, but try to learn something new, do a bit of travelling, visit as many art museums as I can, eat and sample local cuisine, live like the locals for a week or two.
Newly retired here with a healing fractured ankle.
Prior to this I was determined I would DO NOTHING the first year. That looks to be the case except that we just bought a house in another state and need to sell our current home. Husband is pushing me to move - fast - and my ankle just doesn't want to move fast - yet.
I want to learn Spanish. I want to read more. I want to see family and friends more (living away from too many of them for too many years). I want to enjoy life without being PUSHED. I want to slow down and smell the roses. I want to foster or rescue dogs.... I want music back in my life.
Many kit planes qualify as Light Sport Aircraft, meaning that if he once had a medical certification, he doesn't need to pass the medical again to fly an LSA.
That may be part of his motivation. And of course some people just want to build a plane.
I don't know any plane builders who built their planes because of medical certification concerns. Quite a few builders whom I know seem to enjoy building more than flying. We are the opposite so we opted for an easy way to build a plane with the Glasair 's TWTT (Two weeks to taxi) program
The appeal of owning a LSA to avoid having to pass the FAA's medical diminished significantly when the new medical rule called 'Basic Med' took effect on May 1, 2017. Instead of getting a 3rd class Medical Certificate, a pilot can take an online education course and get an exam by a state-licensed physician (i.e. you can just get your family doctor to fill a form affirming your fitness to fly). Flying with a BasicMed has very limited restrictions unlike flying with a Sport Pilot licence (which is limited to LSA).
What Aircraft Can I Fly?
Pilots flying under BasicMed are allowed to operate “covered aircraft” defined as having a maximum certificated takeoff weight of not more than 6,000 pounds and are not authorized to carry more than six occupants (up to five passengers plus the pilot in command), at altitudes up to 18,000 feet MSL and at an indicated airspeed of up to 250 knots. Pilots, if appropriately rated, can fly VFR or IFR in “covered aircraft.”
Back to the OP's of "Unusual Post Retirement Plans/Goals/Dreams", I have many plans and goals but none of which that I would considered 'unusual'. Some people considered some of things we did in the past being very unusual. Things like diving with schools of sharks in the Galapagos Islands, taking bush pilot training then embarking on a self-fly safari in South Africa, taking a flying safari in New Zealand, building a plane, flying 5,500 nm from NY to various Caribbean Islands etc. To us, they were just the things we found that we could do. If anything, I am a lot more uncertain about how to carry out a simple plan like raising a few goats than how to embark on another flying safari!
I don't know any plane builders who built their planes because of medical certification concerns. Quite a few builders whom I know seem to enjoy building more than flying. We are the opposite so we opted for an easy way to build a plane with the Glasair 's TWTT (Two weeks to taxi) program
The appeal of owning a LSA to avoid having to pass the FAA's medical diminished significantly when the new medical rule called 'Basic Med' took effect on May 1, 2017. Instead of getting a 3rd class Medical Certificate, a pilot can take an online education course and get an exam by a state-licensed physician (i.e. you can just get your family doctor to fill a form affirming your fitness to fly). Flying with a BasicMed has very limited restrictions unlike flying with a Sport Pilot licence (which is limited to LSA).
Back to the OP's of "Unusual Post Retirement Plans/Goals/Dreams", I have many plans and goals but none of which that I would considered 'unusual'. Some people considered some of things we did in the past being very unusual. Things like diving with schools of sharks in the Galapagos Islands, taking bush pilot training then embarking on a self-fly safari in South Africa, taking a flying safari in New Zealand, building a plane, flying 5,500 nm from NY to various Caribbean Islands etc. To us, they were just the things we found that we could do. If anything, I am a lot more uncertain about how to carry out a simple plan like raising a few goats than how to embark on another flying safari!
Jeez, is this the reason why I am reading so many cases about private pilots in twin engine Cessnas buying the farm over the past year or so? Seems like never a week goes by without this kind of story, a private pilot buying it in Long Island Sound! - Or is it my imagination?
Why do people put off the things they want to do until retirement? Most people get vacation days, a bonus, tax refund, etc. There is time and money earlier in life.
Sometimes the time isn't available during your working years.
In 1975, my best friend and bought an old twin engine boat. Our plan was to fix it up (stop laughing -- we were kids) during our last year of high school. We planned to spend the following summer traveling the Mississippi and part of the gulf coast. Those who have had large twin engine boats know the folly of this endeavor and are still chuckling, we had neither the skills nor the money to restore such a large craft and our total journey lasted about 3 miles.
So, that's my unusual plan for retirement now 43 years later. I bought the boat 2 years ago and am outfitting it for my trip, although the first plans are just gulf coast / ICW. I'm doing it more sensibly now. This one's 30 feet with one engine, a generator, central heat/air, a small galley and a bath/shower. I'm finishing the final tasks this year in preparation for starting next fall. Wish me luck.
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