On the 4th September 2018, I received a letter from the CEO to congratulate me on my 40 years in the company… s**t… really? Any way it got me thinking. I reflected on my Dad who retired and closed his business on his 70th birthday and then (in the nicest way) largely vegetated and had a well-earned rest but didn’t really enjoy his new found freedom having worked bloody hard for around 55 years.
We started to think about all the things we wanted to do; travel, the camper thing, parents not getting any younger and to generally live a bit whilst young, fit and healthy enough to do it. Retirement was a possibility, albeit not lavish, but doable.
Over the next couple of weeks our thoughts turned from ‘can we’ to ‘bu**er it why not’. Cutting a long story short I spoke to my boss and agreed a retirement date of 31st March 2019 and Sal agreed a leave of absence for 12 months with her company from roughly the same time.
This was moving quickly. We had 6 months to get our act together before ‘R’ Day then a further 10 months in the London flat post retirement to finish doing London and get ready for the next phase of our adventure.
Lots of big-ticket things to do, decide and prepare so the first step was to identify and buy a camper van – obvious right!?
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