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Heron, congrats on your recovery. I hope you post about your plans for 2007 and how they progress.
I know of two local couples (younger, late twenties and mid thirties), who just left well-paying and stable jobs and took off for open-ending cruising. One couple knows they only have the funds for one to two years, but they're going for it.
Another avenue I find encouraging for 40-somethings like myself is the idea of having enough to cruise for 2-5 years, but then planning to work summers or part time after that. (Maybe like your plan, if you're thinking 6 months at a time). It makes me tempted to formulate a six month contract for myself at my current job, but my wife may not like the plan since she may or may not enjoy being with the kids in Mexico or the S. Pacific while I work, or traveling back with the kids every year while I work. I think Latitude 38 calls this "commuter cruising."
As for the "big, scary things" that make us think we must work full-time until 68 years of age, I still feel many of them are illusions. For example, if I sell my house in one of the few housing areas that may not burst in terms of annual growth of price, I may never own another house like it in the same area. I wonder, though, if cruising won't open a world of opportunities for other places to live with housing prices that are not exclusionary. If we only think local options are real, we'll also be prisoners of what local inflation occurs. The more we make, the more it costs, etc.
Anyway, thanks for the post and we wish you well on your plans and cruising.
Jim H
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