Me? Living in and around the Florida Keys. Small comfortable conch house on a canal. Medium sized boat, 70’-85’. Cruising from the Keys to Nassau, Exuma, St. Thomas, St. Barth’s, Turks & Caicos doing some island bike riding, wreck/reef diving, island cooking, photography, hiking etc. Spend 6-8 months a year traveling through the Caribbean living on a boat.
What about you? What would you rather be doing?
I hate my job so being rich enough to never have to work again for starters, the rest I can figure out as I go.
So basically my answer is “whatever I feel like, all the time.”
I love my job. Today I am working with two of my kids and one daughter-in-law. Youngest daughter is stocking shelves and running a register. D-I-L is running another register. My son got his CDL learners permit last week and today we are doing equipment deliveries for heavy equipment we rent out. I am at peace and I like my place in the world.
I guess, if I had to fantasize, I’d head down to Chile and go snowmobiling for the southern hemisphere winter, then back to Alaska for norther hemisphere winter.
You fail to put a budget number on you fun scenario. I could live happily on a boat for 100K a year but you can’t maintain your 75’-85’ boat for that! Why do you always do it? The plane and the second plane… Get real man… Who gives a shit how much $$$ you have at your disposal! This site is about sharing our M4 knowledge not how much disposable income you have.
I kinda did my what would I do until I was in my late 40s 
diving around the world and teaching scuba working on boats doing photography
working a bit more in a good place for my kids sake (but I do not like ? wife is OK with it though)
I love living in the Caribbean but not the place I want my kids raised and dating so at this point think I am doing right for my kids not me
Got a good job, maybe great. Would like a greater job.
Gotta great wife , Ill stop there.
I would love a house in the mountains in AZ. Thats it, shooting in the mountains vs 100,000 degree heat in desert today.
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Don’t necessarily love my job but I love being an Architect. If I had FU money, I would have a house in the mountains, away from everyone else on a huge plot of land. Totally off the grid but with all the luxuries of a modern home. Live in piece with my wife. Entertaining friends and family who come to visit. If I want some excitement I would take a trip to NYC, otherwise, relax and enjoy every day. Wait for the zombies to come.
Move to Eastern Europe, preferably Ukraine. Overall, the area is a crap-hole, but I’ve found it’s got a genuineness of culture and people that much of the Western world doesn’t offer. Plus, it’s cheap. Ski/snowboard during the winter, travel during the summer.
I have a lot of things that I’d like to do, the problem is time.
My wife just took an early retirement and we plan on doing some catching up - our last two are just leaving the nest and we’ve spent most of the last 15 years doing sports activities with them and the grand kids from my older sons, year-round.
I like riding trains, so we are going to do that.
Next year a couple of us are talking about riding the Continental Divide - I’m struggling with whether I need to get rid of my workhorse KLR650 and get a KLX250 for the trip.
I have the Great Loop penciled in after that, if I can convince my wife I don’t need an ‘All Oceans, All Tonnage, Masters License.’
In between we plan to do more stuff through our church and community organizations.
I’ve had fun at work all of my life. Was lucky enough to be able to walk away when it got to not being fun.
At this point the biggest problem I face is what to do with the dog during some of these jaunts.
Life is good.
I wouldn’t mind being able to, one by one, visit and take a 3 day riding course at every race course ran by MotoGP and World SBK in the world. That would be pretty glorious.
Whaaaaaaa? I was born in Ukraine and I don’t want to go back.
I never said anything about money. And this is “General Discussion”. I was just asking a hypothetical question. I didn’t mention anything about airplanes. I was just saying that what I would rather be doing was living in the keys and own a boat. That doesn’t mean I’m going to do it or have the money to do it. But that is what I would rather be doing. This is suppose to be fun, I wanted to see what people would say.
I’d like to own some land maybe someday, maybe also take a vacation as I haven’t done so in a decade.
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I’ve been traveling there for a long time. I lived there two months last year and have had close ties to the country for the last 17 years. I absolutely love it. I literally have not felt more at home than when I’m there.
There’s a deepness of culture, lots of history, and people are simply more genuine (both for better and for worse), at least that’s my experience. Peter Santenello summed it up best - I’ve been trying for years to explain my feelings about the country, then I saw his video. Here’s a clip of his thoughts (sorry, it’s a FB video): https://www.facebook.com/chastime/videos/1660484570652920/
I won’t siderail the discussion, but if you’d like to talk via PM, I always enjoy discussions about Ukraine.
I’ve recently “retired”.
My 401k is open to penalty free withdrawals now.
I’ve lost fifty five pounds since February and my BP has gone from 170/110 to 117/79.
I may take a no stress job sometime later, but right now, I workout, work in the yard, shoot once a week, read and do projects.
I’m digging it.
have anyone of you wanted to sail the Mediterranean? Hot Air Balloon over the Swiss Alps? River Boat down the Nile? Dive the Great Barrier Reef? Ride in the Baja 1000? Take a blimp over Europe? Race in the Bullrun/Gumball Rally? Explore the Amazon? I really wanted to know if there was something really special that you really would rather be doing. Just you, even for just a week.
If I won the lottery I would have a huge log cabin compound, barn, garage, etc. on hundreds of acres adjoining a massive national forest. My own track, collection of muscle cars, indoor and outdoor ranges, massive indoor lap sized pool in a huge greenhouse full of exotic birds, wild cats, rock walls, waterfall, etc., a large fenced in mini zoo with a pack of wolves, probably 20 acres or so of pastures cleared around the house, with the rest wooded trails.
And I would take a year or so while that was being built, start in Laredo on an ancient BMW GS Paris Dakar and end up in Argentina.
need to move to Alaska.
Is time travel out? I have a week I’d like to do over, LOL.
Daughter got home from her date a while ago, going to hit the sack.
Since we are talking hypothetically I’d like to have about a 1000 acres of good hunting land/pasture preferably along a river to build food plots, trails to my stands, a duck impound and take about 100 acres to develop as a training area for my labs. this would be pretty much year round work to maintain like I’d want. Maybe I’ll get lucky and hit the lottery one day.