The couch is gone!

I brought in a chair from the spare bedroom and the living-room still looks fine, but it is a sign that the transition is beginning. The couch went to Joanne and Bert’s cottage at Pike Lake. I will still be sitting on it from time to time, but its absence emphasises the change which is in the process of unfolding.
I love that I have plenty of time to process these changes and to be comfortable as I separate myself from the things which will no longer be needed for my journey. It could be exciting to speculate upon what might unfold but I don’t do much of that. I am totally just immersed in relocating my possessions and organizing my details into a coherent and portable format. There is no sense of loss or fear of disaster, just a muted puzzlement as to why these options are so natural and easy to make at this time.
October will be a month of holidays and total focus on the project More on that later.

And so it begins!

10 more months until my retirement but so much to do before then as I prepare to pop out of the coocoon provided by working life into the great unknown. I hadn’t spent much time thinking about this transition until this year. I was neither looking forward to it or dreading it and now it is imminent. Of all life’s transitions; starting school, starting college, getting a job, getting married, having children, starting a business and getting divorced, this may well be the most exciting and challenging of them all to this point.
I plan to move into my back pack and become nomadic for a time. There are no fixed plans yet as to where I will go and for how long. This blog will have the updates as I have time to write as well as other random thoughts as I process the journey. Please share your comments with me too as I like to know how you are also.

Greetings!

Welcome to my blog. I have high hopes of writing "something" regularly. I expect I will note my observations on life, retirement, travel or whatever I am on about at the moment.

I expect to be moving around quite a bit, so this blog will also be my link to the folks at home.

I am on a learning curve in this venture. Patience, it will get better!