Are you living my retirement dream?

[Irish Archer]

I often think of my retirement(still a long way off) and can only hope that I can get there. One never knows.

   When the time comes, I would love to be able to afford to have a mid-sized RV that my wife and I could load up and hit the road.

   I'd like to be able to compile a list of all of the trad shoots across the nation, turn to my wife(of 25 years already), and say, "Honey, where are we shootin' this weekend"? How cool would that be?

   We'd probably start of with the TBOF in Florida, and be in a different city every weekend until it was time to bowhunt Ohio at the first part of October. I can't think of a better retirement!

   Someone out there has to be living my dream already. Come on, share it with us. We can take it!

[bowhunterfrompast]

ttt

[Rusty in Fla.]

Well we can all dream.

[luvnlongbow]

What Rusty said. But,make it happen.

[Eric Krewson]

Yep, we don't travel all year but make a lot of southern shoots. This shot is of our camper at Tannehill Park at the Children's Hospital benefit shoot.

[pronghorn23]

Randy I dream the same dream.

Travel the country to the various shoots, along the way stop at different state and national parks and then throw in a few Nascar races and county and state fairs.

And of course you gotta do some hunts too!

My problem is with the races and fairs I don't think I'd live much longer with all the food I'd be eating.

[Otto]

Not living it yet.  Bot I will be in 6 years and 11 days!!!!  

[BowHuntingFool]

IA, that would be pretty cool attending all the shoots around the country making new friends and meeting up with some old ones!    

[Bill Kissner]

I was fortunate to be able to retire 4 years ago. Jeanne and I pull the camper to Cloverdale, Comptons, and then to the Rockies for the summer. We come home after elk season, then leave for Arizona after Christmas and spend 2 months there before returning home for the UBI Banquet. Then in June we start all over again. We are spending our kids and grandkids inheritance and enjoying every minute of it!!   :D

[Irish Archer]

I just think about it all of the time. And I even like my job! I love it out west and have been fortunate enough to have even done a few hunts in MT,WY,and CO(Mule deer/Antelope combos). But, just to end up in different places, meeting different people, and having a grand old time would be pricless.

Bill, don't worry about their inheritance, they'll be fine. Congrats.

Eric, nice camper!

Otto, six will fly by brother.

[BobW]

22 more years to go....

[bawana bowman]

RETIREMENT????????      

I should have done that in my twenties when I had more money than I had sense, and my body was in shape to take on the world. Instead I decided to become an entrepreneur. Now many years and many dollars later, I just don't see a nonworking ending to my life story.      
Go Figure!

[Irish Archer]

bowman,

I'm not sure that I do either, but I can't stop the dream. I'll always try to remain hopeful though.

[joekeith]

Do what you can now.  No telling how your health will be when you retire.  I always planned on a elk hunt someday, now I can hardly walk somedays.
 Don't take your health for granted. Live your dreams while you can, or they may just end up being dreams.  Good luck....  

[macbow]

Just as joekeith says live life as it comes. I managed a Alaska adventure and a caribou hunt in Quebec before I fully retired.
I now have the time and not the cash and certainly don't have the health to fully make the most of retirement.
But I can relive those and other great adventures and still dream some.
Ron

[LEWIS VADEN]

I retired last September.  We have an all trad club with 15 3d targets.  I spend from 4 to 8 hrs daily at the range unless I have my grandkids or hoghunting.  I attend 3d shoots every weekend.  If my health was better I would be in heaven.

[todd smith]

25 years to go...

todd