The Retirement Thread

[PK99]

You're in for it now....

A month in Canada sounds fun - where are you going? It's one of my favourite countries.

in order:

Calgary
Drumheller Dinosaur park & Museum
Camnore hiking
Bugaboos (heli-hiking)
Moraine Lake - chilling
Jasper - Glaciers!
2 day train to Prince Rupert @ Alaskan border
Inside passage 16 hr ferry to Port Hardy (Vancouver island)
Telegraph Cove - whale watching
Mainland Bear lodge via float plane
Tofino
Vancouver

And breathe!

 

[PK99]

Sounds fantastic!

It is THE Big Holiday - utterly scary price but for a once in a lifetime indulgent retirement holiday hopefully worth it.

 

[Drago]

I'm hoping my camper/motor home will turn my retirement into a perpetual holiday.

 

[screenman]

I'm hoping my camper/motor home will turn my retirement into a perpetual holiday.

Are you going to travel in this new gas guzzler, how could you.

 

[Drago]

Yep, going to pollute my way around the UK and watch the sea level rise.

 

[Lee_M]

did a nice 60 mile 17.5 mph ride out with a bunch of fellow semi-retireds and bunking-off-ers,
yesterday I took the gas guzzler to the pub, probably burnt off my share of the ozone layer for this week in one go (about 8-10mpg I've never dared work it out)

 

[Dirk]

Yep, going to pollute my way around the UK and watch the sea level rise.

I'll send you the bill when my bungalow sinks below the waves.......

 

[Drago]

Don't worry. I'll be parked close by watching.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Are you going to travel in this new gas guzzler, how could you.

@Drago can preserve his green credentials and see the world in/on this:

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My chimney pot was badly damaged in the storms of December 2015 - I finally decided to clamber up and put the new one on today but it rained (still is) so I have abandoned the task yet again.

Bit bored at the moment - my plans of installing 'pot', going for a ride and then a walk with Lovely Wife have gone down the tube. Haven't got a plan 'B' yet.

(Semi) retirement can be a bit dull at times.

 

[derrick]

Having lunch with one of my daughters and granddaughters today.
In the pub.

 

[Dirk]

Having lunch with one of my daughters and granddaughters today.
In the pub.

Ditto - without kids.

Pensioners fish and chips - £4.50
Two pints of 'Proper Job' and a wobble home.

 

[derrick]

Ditto - without kids.

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Pensioners fish and chips - £4.50
Two pints of 'Proper Job' and a wobble home.

Thats what i had although mine was £9.60 + £4.40 or a beer.

 

[Dirk]

Thats what i had although mine was £9.60 + £4.40 or a beer.

2 pints, 2 halves and 2 x fish and chips ...... and still got change from £20.

 

[Drago]

Somehow accidentally dozed the afternoon away!