I remember this post when it first came out. I have to say, there are more and more days now when I want to check out. I'm a scant few years away from 60 and working to retirement seems harder now than it did a decade ago. If it wasn't for the wife, I could see selling the house and putting the few items I want to keep (tools, extra motorcycles, etc.) in storage. Then upgrade my current weekend style camping trailer to something more suitable and spending life going from one national park to the next. I'd eventually get tired and then park the camper on a small plot of land next to the bay and that would be that. Dreams.
I think about this piece from time to time, too. I wonder what became of Ted. I'm not jealous, though. Well, maybe I am a little bit, but at the same time I spent almost ten years in Japan and now live in the UP, so... Speaking of Upper Michigan, I'd like to think that Ted somehow ended up here, and maybe I've seen him around town. Maybe he works at a local brewery with one of my colleagues. Maybe we're neighbors now. Or we will be once we finally purchase that house we've been cautiously saving up for.
Having left the neighborhood now myself, I feel like we will eventually meet again. Just a matter of time. When the boy and I were at Slab City two weeks ago, I half expected to see him there.
I remember this post when it first came out. I have to say, there are more and more days now when I want to check out. I'm a scant few years away from 60 and working to retirement seems harder now than it did a decade ago. If it wasn't for the wife, I could see selling the house and putting the few items I want to keep (tools, extra motorcycles, etc.) in storage. Then upgrade my current weekend style camping trailer to something more suitable and spending life going from one national park to the next. I'd eventually get tired and then park the camper on a small plot of land next to the bay and that would be that. Dreams.
I think about this piece from time to time, too. I wonder what became of Ted. I'm not jealous, though. Well, maybe I am a little bit, but at the same time I spent almost ten years in Japan and now live in the UP, so... Speaking of Upper Michigan, I'd like to think that Ted somehow ended up here, and maybe I've seen him around town. Maybe he works at a local brewery with one of my colleagues. Maybe we're neighbors now. Or we will be once we finally purchase that house we've been cautiously saving up for.
Having left the neighborhood now myself, I feel like we will eventually meet again. Just a matter of time. When the boy and I were at Slab City two weeks ago, I half expected to see him there.