12 Years - Who's Counting? Us!

For many years we have been very clear and focused that when A reaches his full pension age (on his 55th birthday), he's retiring and we are moving north. For quite some time, we thought we would move back to VT but in recent years we realized that the coast of Maine is really where we want to be. Ocean. Open land. Mountains. Friends. That's the plan!

We just returned from another lovely, relaxing, gorgeous Maine vacation and with only 12 years until retirement (not that we want to rush the next 12 years - they will go fast enough if the last 10 are any indication!), we are a little giddy that we can actually start thinking about where exactly we want to be. The plan is to buy a piece of property in a few years and then take our time to build a house. Then barns. A garage. Add animals. Yay!