Well it is SOFTBALL season...

What does this have to do with RV's and my future retirement?  Nothing? Everything? ...

Well when my DW and I started to discuss retirement a little over a year ago we sat around for a long time trying to determine where would live at first.  This slowly morphed to a discussion centered on RV'ing full time to assist us in finding the perfect "settle down" spot.  Then as we discussed it further we started to realize that we may RV for an extended time to see a lot of the the US, Canada, and Mexico... and maybe even further south if we become more adventurous.

The next point of discussion became WHEN? When to retire was a little more complicated.  So I had to build a massive spreadsheet and work up all our financial numbers to see WHEN we could retire and quit w$rking.  That is when it started to become fun.  Why?  Because after I had worked up the numbers it was apparent that we were closer to this reality than we thought.  So we focused on our retirement date at first on late spring - early summer of 2011.  Then it hit us... our DD would be in her last year of college in 2011 and would be playing her last full year of division 1 softball that spring.  Thus, the retirement date became clearer since we decided that we wanted to watch as many of her games as possible her senior year.  You see we live in Texas and she goes to school in North Carolina so we have not gotten to see nearly as many games as we would like to have over the years.  So next year when we retire we will drive out RV over to North Carolina where we will watch most of her final games and then watch her graduate.

So today it is off to Florida to watch her play in a tournament.  We will rent a car and take a half day to drive over to the gulf coast and look for future sites to park our rig... see it does have to do with RV'ing and our future retirement after all...