Bill retires in a year and, along with doing a lot of camping, we have been thinking of selling our Milwaukee home and heading either up north our out west where the skiing, biking, fishing, hiking, camping, wildlife photography, birding, canoeing, astronomy and, well, everything we like is better. It will give us a better opportunity to use our
digital cameras,
telescopes,
binoculars,
spotting scopes and so on, of course, but it will also give us a chance to just plain get the smell and sounds of the city out of our blood and breathe some fresh air. Nothing against Milwaukee – it’s been a great place for both of us and our home is about as far from the hustle and bustle of the city as a home can get and still be in the city – but, there are signs that it may not suit us, anymore.
So off we go, cruising the on line real estate ads for homes out west or up north. I know that most folks think of heading south when they retire to avoid the winter, but we are not most folks. We are outdoors folks and winter, to us, means time to ski, snowshoe, ice fish and all those other wonderful things you do in the winter where we live. My mother headed right back up to the far north when she retired from her career in Nebraska and I am my mother’s child. Forty below and the calls of timber wolves sounds great to me.