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Thanks for posting that. An interesting read.

Interesting NY Fed post on retirement trends. Focuses on how the pandemic introduced a significant decrease in the percentage of workers...

congrats on pulling the trigger. DW and I also both loved what we did. Objectively, perhaps too much so--leading to far more hours at...

Wow, great trip! Thanks for sharing the map & the blog (your wife's writing and photos are fantastic). We did a shorter 2-week trip in...

Yeah, that's us too. We occasionally get together with two couples in town (2 or 3 dinners a year?), and with two others that live 13...

In general, I agree. But the process of trying to find such individual friends, when we never found any such connections during our...

Interesting. We thought the drivers were pretty good as a whole. But, then again, we were mainly in rural areas.

I read articles like that and, fortunately, am at a loss to understand them. Much like articles talking about sleep difficulties... DW...

Your wife is definitely in the majority with her wine preference; we felt a little weird in preferring the country's Riesling, Pinot...

Wow. What a trip. 55 days, including 5400 miles in a 53 day car rental! We did a rough figure 8 on both the North and South Islands...

In Nashville, based on prices, news articles, and our work acquaintances/friends/clients, the merely "rich" find the Franklin/Brentwood...

The most desirable for whom, what, and when? When we moved here 20 years ago with our teens, we wanted land and reasonable proximity to...

We returned last week from a trip in which we sandwiched a long trip to NZ with two weeks of land-based diving in Fiji. (Relatively...

We haven't seen credit card surcharges much in the US. But, in NZ, I it was VERY unusual not to see them. I hesitate to use the word...

We do, both locally for new restaurants and when traveling. Sometimes we look deeply into the reviews, as on our recent NZ trip when...