...just practicing

I have not blogged since my trip to Finland in February (not the best month to visit Finland) and my past blogs for the most part were documenting my foreign travel. Now, as my retirement approaches, my blog will take on a different slant. My hope is not to get in a heavier air flying machine anytime soon. It has been my experience that Singapore is a great placed to visit but 28 hours in an airplane seat is just too much. I was fortunate enough to be a in a larger business class seat and it was torture. Coach has to be the equivalent to “water boarding” and everyone on the plane is paying for the privilege.

My retirement travel plans will for the most part be on wheeled ground based vehicles, sleeping in my own sheets, and will rarely take me out of the state of Texas.

As I write this I’m sitting in that exotic destination of Ranger, Texas. Ranger was a Texas Ranger camp in the late 19th century, an oil boom town in 1917 (the oil boom that won WW1), the home of the 3rd oldest airport in Texas and now is a sleepy little town on I-20 with less than 2500 residents.

I’m in the RV park right next to the T&P railroad track. Yes it does have about 15 trains a day and they do blow their horn as the train approaches. Did it keep me awake last night? No, it lulled me to sleep.

54 days until I retire. I’m just out here practicing.