I always hear people talk about all the things they'll do after they retire, but somehow I never see them actually do it. Sometimes you just need to do things instead of putting them off to some uncertain future.
I never wanted to retire at 60, I wanted to retire young. I picked a date in the 1990s by which I wanted to travel full time.
We missed the date by a year-- exactly the year it took us to get ready for this.
Takes a lot of time to get rid of a couple decades of accumulated junk. That's one of the bigger inhibitions. We didn't put anything but a couple small boxes in storage with friends, we got rid of everything.
Sort of our "burning the ships" moment, but also, the thing is, it was mostly unnecessary.
Like in fight club - we thought we had the sofa thing covered. Forget that. There will be more sofas in the future.
